It always surprises me how little western anthropologists have to say about ancient India. You should get an Indologist such as Sir William Dalrymple on to speak about that part of the world.
In The WEIRDest People in the World, Henrich discusses in the prelude how Martin Luther called upon Protestants to develop their own interpretation of the Bible by reading it on their own (sola scriptura) as opposed to simply allowing the priestly class pass down their interpretation. This mix of the Gutenberg press (tech) and sola scriptura (religious salvation through reading) led to high literacy among Protestant populations, and which dominoed into the Scottish Enlightenment, Industrial Revolution and culture bending shifts that shape the W-E-I-R-D world today.
My questions are: Is it fair to call LLMs/AI the next Gutenberg Press? If so, will Silicon Valley become the 'Wittenberg' of the next 'Protestant Revolution' (i.e. high AI literacy/ first domino in a cascade of Enlightenment-like cultural shifts unlocked by this AI-literacy) or does the W-E-I-R-D world lack enough of the key ingredients to become something so revolutionary? Who will be the Martin Luther of the AI world? Or is this analogy too off-base to be of any use?
It always surprises me how little western anthropologists have to say about ancient India. You should get an Indologist such as Sir William Dalrymple on to speak about that part of the world.
In The WEIRDest People in the World, Henrich discusses in the prelude how Martin Luther called upon Protestants to develop their own interpretation of the Bible by reading it on their own (sola scriptura) as opposed to simply allowing the priestly class pass down their interpretation. This mix of the Gutenberg press (tech) and sola scriptura (religious salvation through reading) led to high literacy among Protestant populations, and which dominoed into the Scottish Enlightenment, Industrial Revolution and culture bending shifts that shape the W-E-I-R-D world today.
My questions are: Is it fair to call LLMs/AI the next Gutenberg Press? If so, will Silicon Valley become the 'Wittenberg' of the next 'Protestant Revolution' (i.e. high AI literacy/ first domino in a cascade of Enlightenment-like cultural shifts unlocked by this AI-literacy) or does the W-E-I-R-D world lack enough of the key ingredients to become something so revolutionary? Who will be the Martin Luther of the AI world? Or is this analogy too off-base to be of any use?
great questions. thanks for sharing your curiosity with us