The promise and fear of an assembly line for knowledge work

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5 pointsPanos2 comments

Why do we bother using "assembly line" metaphors, or trying to make "knowledge work" into a trade, or even unskilled labor, when we have the warm reassurance of Goedel's Incompleteness Theorems (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_t...) and the answer to Hilbert's 10th problem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matiyasevich%27s_theorem#Matiya...)?

I mean, really, truth is not an industrial product.

But intellectual labor can become an industrial product.

Not all products of intellectual effort are theorems and mathematical proofs.

And please read this before citing Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem: http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notabene/godels-theorem.htm...