#AI #Labor #Automation #GeneralIntellect: "This book [The Eye of the Master] began with a simple question: What relation exists between labor, rules, and automation, i.e., the invention of new technologies? To answer this question, it has illuminated practices, machines, and algorithms from different perspectives—from the “concrete” dimension of production and the “abstract” dimension of disciplines such as mathematics and computer science. The concern, however, has not been to repeat the separation of the concrete and abstract domains but to see their coevolution throughout history: eventually to investigate labor, rules, and automation, dialectically, as material abstractions. The initial chapter emphasized this aspect by highlighting how ancient rituals, counting tools, and “social algorithms” all contributed to the making of mathematical ideas. To affirm, as did the introduction, that labor is a logical activity is not a way of abdicating to the mentality of industrial machines and corporate algorithms, but rather of recognizing that human praxis expresses its own logic (an anti-logic, some might say)—a power of speculation and invention, before techno-science captures and alienates it."
https://www.e-flux.com/journal/141/577253/the-automation-of-general-intelligence/