> Another example. One of the great joys of my life is having nerdy friends explain things to me. Now I can get explanations from AI with less friction, anytime, anywhere, with endless follow-up.
> Even if the AI explanations are “better”, there’s a social cost. I can try to mindfully nudge myself to still ask people questions, but now it requires more effort.
I’ve lived alone in the woods for longer than I care to think about. I hate the internet. I deliberately asked my friendly Duck about “Garfield”, wanting to know about the president whose name graced my 9th grade school. I got endless spew about a cartoon cat. The internet has degraded into a “lower than least common denominator” s—-storm. And this was without AI (up front, anyway).
Love people. Be a “real” engineer. Build machines and computers that do fun and socially beneficial things. Don’t give your life away to them.
Learn from my example. Joey, “A Mechanical Boy” [0] had an involuntary medical problem. Don’t go there on purpose.
> Even if the AI explanations are “better”, there’s a social cost. I can try to mindfully nudge myself to still ask people questions, but now it requires more effort.
I’ve lived alone in the woods for longer than I care to think about. I hate the internet. I deliberately asked my friendly Duck about “Garfield”, wanting to know about the president whose name graced my 9th grade school. I got endless spew about a cartoon cat. The internet has degraded into a “lower than least common denominator” s—-storm. And this was without AI (up front, anyway).
Love people. Be a “real” engineer. Build machines and computers that do fun and socially beneficial things. Don’t give your life away to them.
Learn from my example. Joey, “A Mechanical Boy” [0] had an involuntary medical problem. Don’t go there on purpose.
[0] https://blogs.uoregon.edu/autismhistoryproject/archive/bruno...