From the article: [later pivots to writing about AI]
From the article:
Of course this isn’t just a book about hedging, that would be silly. There’s also haymaking, shepherding, walling, beekeeping, weaving, tanning, basketry, thatching, plowing, and the making of everything from ponds to quicklime, because Alex Langlands is obsessed with preserving (and if necessary recovering) the skills of the rural past. He wants you to understand what’s been lost to industrialization, and how our contact area with the world has shrunk, and why doing things with your body is part of being human, and…oh wait I’m sorry I nodded off, because I’ve written this all like twelve times already.
So why am I telling you about a book on how to do things by hand that you can do far more quickly and efficiently with a machine?
From the article:
[later pivots to writing about AI]