cool video goes over ai vs thinking
Atrophy or deskilling is a underrated problem in my opinion. And it applies to all things in life. Some people suggest computer literacy went down, because people are on their phones and tablets these days and everything works smoothly, so there is little to no motivation to learn how these things work, what they do behind the scenes, what privacy is...
Furthermore a general lack of worth or value of things, because everything is available in abundance and will arrive from China at your doorstep the next day. So we used to have nice hand-knitted norwegian sweaters. And these days we wear arbitrary cheap stuff and we just throw it in the bin after one season. Of course this leads to all kinds of societal issues once things lose value. And all malls are going to close and get displaced by Amazon. And manufacturers will discontinue quality products, since they're competing on a low-quality market now.
Same likely applies to knowledge. Why all the hassle to learn something from the grounds up, in a years-long process, if there's cheap results available right now, and the question doesn't call for quality in the first place?
(CW:Political opinion. I know it's a bit fatalistic, but I think we can see the same dynamics in the political landscape. People's grandpas still fought against the nazis and they held up democracy. People now know little about the value of democracy because they didn't need to fight for it. So for all they care we might as well appoint fascists to lead us. I think on a more abstract level, it's all one and the same form of atrophy. Also fits the question/answer theme of this video. Because fascists for sure have simple and easy to understand answers ready to our questions.)
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