Seeing Like a State by James Scott
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State
Explains a lot of the confusing stuff I've experienced, in that eureka sort of way.
Like, they hadn't realized they were turning humans into compilers for abstract concepts, yet now they are telling humans to get tf out of the way of AI
I'm not sure what: "'deskilling' to something reliable through bureaucratic procedures" ... means.
I'm the Managing Director of a small company and I'm pretty sure you are digging at the likes of me (int al) - so what am I doing wrong?
From the 19th century onwards, businesses have wanted to replace high-skilled craftsmen with low-skilled workers who would simply follow a repeatable process. A famous example is Ford. Ford didn't want an army of craftsmen, who each knew how to build a car. He wanted workers to stay at one station and perform the same single action all day. The knowledge of how to build a car would be in the system itself, the individual workers didn't have to know anything. This way, the workers have limited leverage because they are all replaceable, and the output is all standardized.
You can see this same approach everywhere. McDonalds for instance, or Amazon warehouses, or call centers.
We give a shit.