https://vegasharmon.com/works/big-techs-war-on-human-achievement/ Recent content in Big Tech's War on Human Achievement on Vegas Harmon Hugo en Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/science-without-scientists-knowledge-without-knowers/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/science-without-scientists-knowledge-without-knowers/ So far, the progress of science, the accomplishments of literature, have gone hand-in-hand with the formation of scientists and writers. But that consonance between human type and achieving a result has now been broken. The future we are looking at is one of more science but fewer, or no, scientists. Astrophysics without astrophysicists, history without historians—this is the future. https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/the-end-of-vocation-when-work-no-longer-matters/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/the-end-of-vocation-when-work-no-longer-matters/ A final way to think about the tragedy of AI advancing beyond us is that it spells the end of the possibility of having a vocation. That we are elevated above mere animalistic consumption by consistent work in a calling is one of the deepest features of civilized life; far from belonging only to geniuses, many who toil in complete anonymity get much of their satisfaction and sense of self from feeling that they are making a contribution through their work.