Evolution has produced hindrances just as easily as it produced our uniquely human mental abilities: the same mental feature that helped us avoid behavioral loo

Evolution has produced hindrances just as easily as it produced our uniquely human mental abilities: the same mental feature that helped us avoid behavioral loops, now mentally impedes humans who perform repetitive tasks. Yet if that task is intractable for a computer, there is no recourse. Also, for some tasks efficiency may not be enough. Factory machinery can produce and convey products which are far too heavy for humans to lift or push. On the other end of the scale, human vision cannot perceive the hundred-atoms-scale structures in modern ICs; and our fine motor skills are no better at manipulating tools to produce such a tiny structure. (Even producing such tools is beyond the reach of a human craftsperson.) And that's not even starting on how thoroughly flawed and attention-dependent the human memory system is. Storing less information is all well and good, until important information goes unstored. And then there's the numerous flaws in how humans perform that array of mental tasks only tractible for humans; cf. Thinking Fast and Slow, which has been discussed on HN recently iirc. I can't imagine how much e.g. mismanagement would not occur if managers were not so ... human.