War Games? Skynet? Sneakers? Matrix? GladOS? HAL 9000?
No, no, no, the dystopian AI future we're getting is The Tick in AI form
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![For most of Western history, including the early days of the Industrial Revolution, motivation was based mostly on fear of punishment.
[margin note: and this is BAD]
Over the past thirty years or so, a number of new approaches have begun to replace older practices keyed to fear. Perhaps the emergence of the new, humanistic approaches to motivation can be traced to the decline in the relative importance of manual labor and the corresponding rise in the importance of so-called knowledge workers. The output of a manual laborer is readily measurable, and departures from the expected can be spotted and dealt with immediately. But for a knowledge worker, such departures take longer to determine because even the expectations themselves are very difficult to state precisely. In other words, fear won't work as well with computer architects as with galley slaves; hence new approaches to motivation are needed.
My description of what makes people perform relies heavily on Abraham Maslow's theory of motivation, simply because my own observations of working life confirm Maslow's concepts. For Maslow, motivation is closely tied to the idea of needs, which cause people to have drives, which in turn result in motivation. A need once satisfied stops being a need and therefore stops being a source of motivation. Simply put, if we are to create and maintain a high degree of motivation, we must keep some needs unsatisfied at all times.
[Margin note: i.e., abuse]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cfgbrfpstdsfosvd4glv5gaw/bafkreifsccswjdsbsgm5gfhoyzvb5s3janwbzvqdtksyf4zacrgs33n5gy)
