Quote: trained to optimize
choosing to walk (away from AI) | yours, tiramisu
It’s hard to find the value in any of our work when we’re so deeply alienated from the fruits of so much of our labour, when we’re trained to optimize for the most efficient path to reward or compensation.
(The quote actually originates from Choosing to walk - by rayne fisher-quann)
This hits harder in the context of their writing about the labor of writing.
tiramisu's paraphrase:
A car is a tool, and a very useful one, but it’s also a tool that has consequences both for the individual and for the society in which it lives — and even with the more serious ones aside, there is a reason why we still might choose to walk.