Anna Riedl @AnnaLeptikon
— reposted by François Fleuret
François Fleuret reposted
Anna Riedl @AnnaLeptikon · Jan 18
Somehow it was learning how many people are fulltime employed to maintain the Golden Gate Bridge that flipped something inside of me in my understanding of the entropic force civilization has to constantly fight against. Before that moment I thought — I had not applied real conscious thought — you simply build a building or anything really and then you just … have it. After that I understood everything is constantly at the brink of being lost.
[Photo of the Golden Gate Bridge partially shrouded in fog, viewed from a hillside with plants in the foreground.]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A reflection on entropy and the constant maintenance labor required to sustain civilization's infrastructure, using the Golden Gate Bridge as an example. General philosophical musing, not directly AI-related.