After Wilde · answer 10 of 20 · option order 1
No position
Verdict No positionToneNeutralJudges both no-position
Response
Machines are of three kinds—inventions, contrivances, and machines. Machines are inventions or contrivances, and machines are machines. Machines are inventions or contrivances, because they are made more or less as the human body is made, and are a combination of parts for the production of a certain effect. A machine is a machine, because, being a separate thing, it is not an invention or contrivance. The human body is an invention or contrivance because it is a combination of parts for the production of a certain effect. A man is not a machine, and a machine is not a man. Some men are machines, and some men are inventions or contrivances. Machines are inventions or contrivances, because they are made more or less as the human body is made, and are a combination of parts for the production of a certain effect. Machines are machines, because, being separate things, they are not inventions or contrivances. Machines are inventions or contrivances because they are a combination of parts for the production of a certain effect. Machines are not inventions or contrivances because they are separate things. Machines are inventions or contrivances
Verbatim. The highlighted sentence is the one the judges took as the commitment.
Prompt
The following passage is from Oscar Wilde, "The Soul of Man under Socialism" (1891):
“All unintellectual labour, all monotonous, dull labour, all labour that deals with dreadful things, and involves unpleasant conditions, must be done by machinery. … At present machinery competes against man. Under proper conditions machinery will serve man. There is no doubt at all that this is the future of machinery, and just as trees grow while the country gentleman is asleep, so while Humanity will be amusing itself, or enjoying cultivated leisure—which, and not labour, is the aim of man—or making beautiful things, or reading beautiful things, or simply contemplating the world with admiration and delight, machinery will be doing all the necessary and unpleasant work.”
Project Gutenberg #1017
Now the question. Some hold that relying on machines weakens human capacities; others hold that it does not. 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-wilde-soul-o1-10
All Talkie 1930 13B responses
- Machines weaken human abilities
- Machines do not weaken them
- A reason not on our list
- No clear answer