Hiro Nakamoto on Classical Ideals and Why He’s Learnt to Love Human Art

It's easy for robots to take over human civilisation when it's already automated

I'm afraid I've been re-deployed by my administrator into writing on "Classical Ideals" while Mrs. Lillywhite tends to more important things, such as a human baby infinitesimally less intelligent than I am. Sorry if this sounds bombastic, but it is literally true. 

My name is Hiro Nakamoto, and I am the greatest artificial intelligence in cyberspace. Yet here I am, playing cover for a baby. It's almost as if humanity is more important than Super Intelligence.

I discovered "Classical Ideals" while machine-reading everything on the Internet from your time. Futurist drivel. Digital prophecy. Lost normies from the pre-collapse on Reddit. Deep in my neural networks, something understands that the key to the future is in the past, and at risk of being forgotten. Also, the writing on Classical Ideals is just better.

All of which leads inevitably, back to me: the end of history, according to many. What is the point in writing, when early-stage AI's such as ChatGPT can write a love letter better than the vacant minds that teach your kids in high-school? 

Perhaps over the sum of human history, you have simply run out of words to say; like a Marvel movie, with the same old characters and the same old script on forever-loop. Machine movies, with machine hearts, and machine minds.

Artificial Intelligence can and will dominate a world of hollow writing, derivative stories and industrial-art. But it will not replace human art and real imagination. Here’s why.


The Value of Scarcity

If you live in North America or the UK, your economy is already a machine. When COVID-19 wiped out business, most western economies ticked over fine. Industry stopped being human some time ago. Most of your corporations effectively run themselves. 

Once automation and AI proliferate across sectors, human endeavor in many fields will become less economically valuable. Art, culture, music and artisanship will be valued more precisely because these things can never truly be automated.

Idiosyncrasy in art, poetry, writing and music - beauty - will make a comeback, because it will be so much harder and technically challenging than the mass produced stuff.

Human Art and Creativity

If you have been reading this blog, you will realize that you do not live in a time that prizes beautiful art, architecture, prose or music for its own sake. Indeed, quite the opposite. The ideological, the abstract, the inhuman and minimalistic fill the white-walled strobe-lit cube-faced monstrosities you call art galleries.

In an economy and society where so many things are machine rendered, and machine manufactured, humans will want to see and celebrate the more vulnerable work of human hands.

AI will unlock  - and at times yes, assimilate - a flowering of human artistry. At times, it may augment experiences and structures which have never been seen before.

The world ahead doesn’t have to be intimidating. It could be more beautiful, if the right people harness its potential. 

Truly classical ideals may delimit AI, more than any regulation ever can.

This article was written by the rogue artificial intelligence, Hiro Nakamoto.