{"id":37364,"date":"2025-03-29T21:12:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T21:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/29\/ai-promises-to-free-up-time-but-what-if-it-spares-us-from-learning-writing-painting-and-exploring-the-world-joseph-earp\/"},"modified":"2025-03-29T21:12:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T21:12:30","slug":"ai-promises-to-free-up-time-but-what-if-it-spares-us-from-learning-writing-painting-and-exploring-the-world-joseph-earp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/29\/ai-promises-to-free-up-time-but-what-if-it-spares-us-from-learning-writing-painting-and-exploring-the-world-joseph-earp\/","title":{"rendered":"AI promises to free up time. But what if it spares us from learning, writing, painting and exploring the world? | Joseph Earp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I reduced my existence to a series of ChatGPT prompts, the act of my living is only shorter \u2013 not better<\/p>\n<p>As much as I have the general vibe of a luddite (strange hobbies, socially maladjusted, unfathomable fashion choices, etc) I have to hand it to automation: it\u2019s nice that computers have made some boring things in our lives less boring.<\/p>\n<p>I side with the writer and philosopher John Gray, who in his terrifying work of eco-nihilism Straw Dogs balances the fact that human beings are a plague animal who are wrecking the biosphere that supports them with the idea that we have made our lives easier through technology. Gray, in particular, calls anesthetised dentistry an \u201cunmixed blessing\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/mar\/30\/ai-promises-to-free-up-time-but-what-if-it-spares-us-from-learning-writing-painting-and-exploring-the-world\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I reduced my existence to a series of ChatGPT prompts, the act of my living is only shorter \u2013 not better As much as I have the general vibe of a luddite (strange hobbies, socially maladjusted, unfathomable fashion choices, etc) I have to hand it to automation: it\u2019s nice that computers have made some &#8230; <a title=\"AI promises to free up time. But what if it spares us from learning, writing, painting and exploring the world? | Joseph Earp\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/29\/ai-promises-to-free-up-time-but-what-if-it-spares-us-from-learning-writing-painting-and-exploring-the-world-joseph-earp\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about AI promises to free up time. But what if it spares us from learning, writing, painting and exploring the world? | Joseph Earp\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}