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I don’t think pg is talking about the short-term, cognitive deficiencies of using AIs during execution of a specific task. I read it as the long-term decline in
by hosh 3y ago
I don’t think pg is talking about the short-term, cognitive deficiencies of using AIs during execution of a specific task. I read it as the long-term decline in capabilities because you don’t regularly exercise certain things:
- being able to organize and compose your thoughts
- being able to synthesize disparate ideas into a cohesive whole
- tuning word choice, diction, and flow for a particular audience
- choosing the narrative frame in which you present your idea (this one is huge)
More concerning than long-term decline is that the next generation never develop these at all.
- quickcheque 3y agoSounds like an ideal labor force.
- tjr 3y agoFor what kind of labor?
- d11z 3y agoI assume they mean one that does not dissent.
- hosh 3y agoThat is indeed what factories preferred since the beginning of industrialization. I’m not concerned so much about AI taking over my livelihood as I am of businesses treating humans as automatons, and have been for over a century, if not more. We even adapted our education system to crank out more automatons (John Taylor Gatto’s book). The flip side is understanding what a true autonomous agent is from the lens of Promise Theory. At the core of it, you trust humans to do what they promise to the best of their abilities. This is the heart of voluntary cooperation. For AIs to be truly autonomous, they cannot be proxies for promises humans make to each other. (Being a proxy for humans is how AI safety ethicists are approaching this). Instead, AIs have to be capable of making and keeping promises in their own right, and we have to trust they do what they promise to the best of their capabilities. … but not every business can’t seem to do that with humans.