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do you want to be good or to be optimized?
This Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comic from yesterday spoke to me at a deep level:
My first thoughts went to generative AI, an area in which I feel like a fetishization of optimization is crowding out really important questions of what is good. As I put it in a university survey earlier today, there are undeniable benefits to the use of AI tools, but there are important questions as to who benefits.
🔗 linkblog: Brave Sir Bentham, Utilitarian Knight - Existential Comics'
Only thing better than a critique of utilitarianism is a critique of utilitarianism in the form of a comic.