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> The average human doesn't need to be that fit and strong anymore. Just like the future human won't need to be so intelligent anymore. I disagree. What saved
by sublinear 1y ago
> The average human doesn't need to be that fit and strong anymore. Just like the future human won't need to be so intelligent anymore.
I disagree. What saved us from physical toil was not physical fitness, but ingenuity. What keeps the world running is still ingenuity, and all signs point to the exact opposite of what you're saying: we'll need even smarter people in the future.
In most cases AI doesn't even lower the bar for anyone and makes topics harder to understand on a sufficiently deep level to do anything useful with that knowledge. With LLMs too many conflate communication with understanding. A robot middleman merely relaying the understanding of other humans does not itself possess that understanding.
- djtango 1y agoI don't think we're in disagreement. In the past the environment necessitated that even scholars be fit and strong because they probably had to carry tomes around and fetch things from shelves whereas today we carry more than the Great Library in the palm of our hands. The plough spared people from back breaking labour but now we have the opposite problem where less than 25 percent of Americans walk for more than ten minutes continuously in a typical week[1] and this presents both health problems both MSK and cardiovascular but also burdens on the healthcare system. You seem to place a lot of faith in LLMs just being middlemen but the real life proof seems to be that many people, especially children and students, are leaning on it heavily in place of learning and understanding [1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121130151132.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121130151132.h...