We’re very worried about AI doing human things. We should be equally worried about humans doing AI things—optimizing hard, understanding nothing.

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it’s optimise *and* die. No matter what the longevity folks say, death is a part of life. It’s the only thing that gives any of this nonsense any meaning

Hmmm… That last part hits hard. We have gamified life to the point that ‘optimize or die’ is now a normal thing, even if we have no clue why we’re doing it

it's already happening. look at school students. i recently read about a philosophy professor who complained about a disconnect in today's classrooms.

Maybe the real danger isn’t just in AI becoming more human, but in humans becoming less so.

https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z