The only time I go to see how ancient cultures lived without electricity and weaved their own clothes in in museums and tourist attractions. They’re also typically incredibly boring.
Many people find interest and meaning in learning about all the ways that people have lived, and the things they did and made. Great museums are a source of pride for many of the world's largest cities, and widely regarded as culturally important and valuable.
This isn't even about ancient cultures, it's about valuing the product that comes from a persons work. Valuing their time and labor, valuing the craft itself.
Compared to a "tribal wood carving designed by GPT" a real world piece of wood is, well, real. The novelty of everything wears off eventually so it won't matter if GPT could still show you nearly infinite carving designs. Without that being turned into actual physical objects by people, they are disposable bytes of data with no real meaning.
Vegenoid|2 years ago
I_Am_Nous|2 years ago
Compared to a "tribal wood carving designed by GPT" a real world piece of wood is, well, real. The novelty of everything wears off eventually so it won't matter if GPT could still show you nearly infinite carving designs. Without that being turned into actual physical objects by people, they are disposable bytes of data with no real meaning.