Fuck AI

But if you go to the gym with a machine that lifts the weights for you, you don't get any stronger. The point is not that the weights get lifted.

I think a lot of people really struggle to understand this.

People straight faced say things like "why would i read a book when and write an analysis when i can just have a tool do it for me?". The teacher doesn't really want to know your personal analysis of Dracula. They want you to practice doing analysis.

I think there's some sort of unfortunate synergy where the people who are less bright are more likely to go for AI, and by virtue of being less bright they're less likely, less capable, of dealing with and recognizing the hazards.

I agree. And your point applies to most technologies in fact. You learn and grow a lot more doing things the hard way that nature intended, as well as becoming more independent. Plus you're not helping the coming technological apocalypse.

All of which I learned how to do step by step, reading the manual and asking questions. These are not special talents or hidden secrets. I'm not unique.

I’ve been saying some variation of this at work for years. Yet still, somehow I’m the only person that can read and understand the data and the documents.

Amazing, you found an unironic "I use Arch btw" in the wild