AI 中文总结
探讨为何追求个性的社会反复产生高度标准化系统，指出答案在于信息处理能力演变。以人工智能时代信息处理能力扩展为核心，提出“认知固定成本”概念，阐述标准化转变及生产逻辑从压缩复杂性到容纳复杂性的演变。
AI 中文摘要
为何由追求个性的个体组成的社会会反复产生高度标准化的系统？本文认为答案在于信息处理能力的演变。人工智能代表了这种能力的历史性转变，使社会系统能够容纳以前必须压缩的复杂形式。工业标准化不仅是资本偏好或权力关系的结果，而是在有限信息处理能力下通过减少受控系统的多样性来维持大规模系统可管理性的制度安排。人工智能时代的根本变化在于信息处理能力在感知、计算和执行三个维度上的扩展。这种扩展将个性化生产从物理适应转向基于信息 的适应，并实现从差异的离散客观化到连续客观化的转变。本文提出“认知固定成本”作为一个分析概念来描述认知劳动的前期集中如何改变个性化生产的成本结构。它进一步认为，标准化并没有消失，而是从产品层面的明确约束转移到基础设施中嵌入的隐式生成规则，将核心矛盾从“是否有共性”转移到“谁控制共性”。文明生产逻辑的演变不是从共性到个性的运动，而是从压缩复杂性到容纳复杂性。
英文摘要
Why do societies composed of individuals pursuing individuality repeatedly generate highly standardized systems? This paper argues that the answer lies in the evolution of information processing capacity. Artificial intelligence represents a historical transition in this capacity, enabling social systems to accommodate forms of complexity that previously had to be compressed. Industrial standardization was not merely a consequence of capital preference or power relations, but an institutional arrangement for maintaining the manageability of large-scale systems under limited information-processing capacity by reducing the variety of the controlled system. The fundamental change in the AI era lies in the expansion of information processing capacity across three dimensions: perception, computation, and execution. This expansion shifts personalized production from physical adaptation toward information-based adaptation and enables a transition from discrete to continuous objectification of difference. This paper proposes "cognitive fixed cost" as an analytical concept to describe how the upfront concentration of cognitive labor transforms the cost structure of personalized production. It further argues that standardization has not disappeared but has moved from explicit constraints at the product level to implicit generation rules embedded in infrastructures, shifting the central contradiction from "whether to have commonality" to "who controls commonality." The evolution of civilizational production logic is not a movement from commonality to individuality, but from compressing complexity to accommodating complexity.
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