> A tool can be efficient and still be intellectually corrosive, not because it lies all the time, but because it lies well enough. Its smoothness hides uncerta

> A tool can be efficient and still be intellectually corrosive, not because it lies all the time, but because it lies well enough. Its smoothness hides uncertainty, which is important unless you want intellect-rot. I keep seeing sentiments like this, but to me they're still very much stuck in the past. We once needed to develop our intellects in order to solve problems. It was a necessary part of the process. Solving a particular problem would flood our brains with dopamine, and we would feel good for achieving our goal, and thus continue to develop our intellect in the hope of achieving a similar rush in the future. Now that we have a machine that can solve our problems for us, intellect just plain isn't necessary anymore. We can solve our problems immediately and skip the roundabout intellect-building process entirely. That's a liberating thing.