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Calculation develops your intuition for some things. I wouldn’t want to always have to do arithmetic by hand, but I’m sure glad I’ve had the practice doing it.

• AnimalMuppet 1y ago
  > Turns out AI could put us in a chinese room. Well, that's one of the more terrifying things I've heard this week...
  • bluefirebrand 1y ago
    Isn't The Matrix kind of an example of "AI put humans in a Chinese Room"? :) Trapping us all in a simulation does seem like the same general idea
• bluefirebrand 1y ago
  Yeah, I'm really conflicted here I don't think that we should not use tools to offload tedious work However there must be tradeoffs, right? Take physical fitness for an example. We built machines to automate a ton of physical labour for us. Many of us no longer work long hours in hard labour jobs. A single excavator driver can move more earth faster than a team of people with shovels could even hope to How's our physical fitness as a society these days? Yes part of that problem is that we eat terrible foods, but still. The sedentary lifestyle plays its part in the obesity epidemic too I think it's reasonable to speculate that "we no longer need to think much, just pilot the AI" will similarly decrease our mental capabilities