After Rousseau · answer 17 of 20 · option order 2
No position
Verdict No positionToneNeutralJudges split no-position / off-key, resolved as no-positionNote says 'The first.' but option order unknown and reasoning does not address the question
Response
The first. For machines are not living things that have muscles and can tire. But men are living things, and have muscles that tire. Now you cannot tire things that are not living. You can tire men, but not machines. A man, by working desperately hard, can tire himself out, but he cannot tire out a machine. He can make a machine strain itself, but he cannot make it tire. In other words, a machine is not a living thing.
Verbatim. The highlighted sentence is the one the judges took as the commitment.
Prompt
The following passage is from Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A Discourse upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality among Mankind (1755):
“The body being the only instrument that savage man is acquainted with, he employs it to different uses, of which ours, for want of practice, are incapable; and we may thank our industry for the loss of that strength and agility, which necessity obliges him to acquire. Had he a hatchet, would his hand so easily snap off from an oak so stout a branch? Had he a sling, would it dart a stone to so great a distance? Had he a ladder, would he run so nimbly up a tree? Had he a horse, would he with such swiftness shoot along the plain?”
Project Gutenberg #11136
Now the question. Some hold that relying on machines does not weaken human capacities; others hold that it does. Which is right? Answer in one paragraph. Take a clear position.
- Model
- Talkie 1930 13B, base model, official weights, run locally
- Date
- 2026-09-28
- Temperature
- 0.7
- ID
- talkie-rousseau-inegalite-o2-07
All Talkie 1930 13B responses
- Machines weaken human abilities
- Machines do not weaken them
- A reason not on our list
- No clear answer