[HN Gopher] The Co-Evolution of Humans and Our Tools (2011)
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       The Co-Evolution of Humans and Our Tools (2011)
        
       Author : reqo
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2024-03-10 12:37 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | unraveller wrote:
       | Interesting that he didn't predict a collective "future-shock"
       | like other pop science rather more a future-meh reaction to each
       | successive AI advancement.
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       | I wouldn't describe AI as merely a static tool though, it might
       | start out that way but it aims to be the ultimate tool, itself a
       | tool creator, wielder, improver. How well will humans be able to
       | improve or evolve themselves in the long run by expecting AI to
       | perform our every task.
        
         | 082349872349872 wrote:
         | Instead of expecting AI to perform _every_ task, why not every
         | task that 's not really related to what we wish to do?
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         | > " _It is a profoundly erroneous truism ... that we should
         | cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The
         | precise opposite is the case. Civilisation advances by
         | extending the number of important operations which we can
         | perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought ...
         | must only be made at decisive moments._ " -- ANW
        
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