The Paternalism of Artificial Intelligence

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Jacob Howland: Much of life is about overcoming challenges. And as we knock these away in the area of thinking, a listener or I asked people whether I was worried that we would lose some of those skills. He says there's this interesting phenomenon where a lot of these things become art forms. The classic example is the horse, right? So, you know, once a pull, 100 years ago, if you were rich, you had a car. Today it's flipped.

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