12 Jan
2025
12 Jan
'25
3:35 p.m.
AI is resource-intensive and an environmental disaster. Using it for trivial purposes
feels worse than pointless to me.
Also, specifically in terms of programming (which someone mentioned), there are aspects of
calling where experience is a key element of the learning process. Shortcuts will be
detrimental to the caller’s experience even if the dancers don’t notice.
In the spirit of slow food, might we not consider ‘slow folk dance’ as taking a positive,
sustainable position in relation to the climate crisis? There is no actual need to make
anything related to contra dancing more efficient.
(I’m reminded of the joke that dancing is a very complicated way of going nowhere. Surely
in some sense we embody the idea that the journey is the destination?)
Louise.
(Winchester, UK)