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The Ghost in the Machine is Not Who You Think: Human Labor and the Paradox of Automation with Mary L Gray

This Anthro Life

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The Paradox of Automations, Last Mile

The book's history starts with slavery, it's when we have the emancipation proclamation in the united states that we make a statement about whose labor cannot be stolen. So your labor as im a worker in a setting like early aeronautics labs was easily discarded asie, anybody can do mathematical equations. And it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy that that work isn't important when computational process comes and seemingly replaces that kind of particularly cognitive work.

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