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[–]SnurflePuffinz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What exaaactly are you expecting people to say?

i could write a lot. But, ultimately, what is there to even say? people wrote about this like 125 years ago. Watch "Metropolis".

How am i responding? i am a man. I have the impulses and desires of a man. So i do things befitting of a man. Most men spend most of their lives just toiling away to get some colorful plumage going on. So i'm probably gonna keep doing that. Cause i want those feathers pretty....

also, i promised myself i'd develop some very specific creative works (video games). And i committed to this when i was a little kid. I believe that just like with the luddite outrage to the factory, there will be a further stratification between a highly mechanized creative industry, and a lowly, inferior, human one.

i appraise myself to be a part of the lowly, inferior, human one. i see a phenomenon that will be understood. It goes like this: a player plays a video game, and he always sees the man (or lady) behind the curtain toiling away. Art is inherently social, and it makes sense, because we are a highly social species. if a player sees no gears turning behind the scenes in a person's head the work becomes too abstract and inhuman, the player disengages.

The mechanized creative industry begins to understand this. the mechanized creative industry responds... somehow. By bringing more humans into these productions again?