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The finished object almost always conceals the process that produced it. An apprentice tries to follow the example of past masters or imitate an ideal finished product; errors occur, revisions are made if the work isn't completely ruined, or sometimes a fresh start is needed when nothing can be salvaged. This process repeats until the work provides some satisfaction and the apprentice gains enough proficiency to begin a new skill.
I will present four case studies of teleoperation, and we will attempt to answer the question, will a persistent teleoperation labor market result in a new flavor of misery-creating dystopian labor, where workers exist as the sense organs for a machine-first superstructure?
Humans have always occupied a strange space among the rest of the Earth’s beings, at least in thought. We have seen ourselves either as beings stretched across two distinct worlds (the physical world and a spiritual realm), or as occupying the chief position of this one world, rivaled in either case only by the gods in whose image we are created, or perhaps, who are created in ours, if we are rivaled at all.
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