Ep203 - Steven Pinker | Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
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Are You Getting Lazy With Technology?
As we rely more on technology to make rational decisions for us, who'll be best capable of making rough compositions for ourselves? Ye, it is a concern. One of the things i'm worried about if i start to rely more on the models, the alorithms, ah, i might get lazy. On the other hand, you know, we have calculators, and i think no one misses the skill of computing square roots. You know, we re learn it as long as that knowledge had not vanished.
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