Hi NFiH,

Well, I guess not having to think anymore was never on the horizon.

I grew up getting my food from supermarkets. Later in life, I became somewhat envious of people who knew how to grow their own food, animals, or how to live off the grid because they grew up learning those skills. They start to seem a little important when the world starts to go sideways. You think of the great depression and many people at that time knew how to be self-sufficient. Today, the research suggests a period like that could be catastrophic in the US. Nobody knows anything anymore. Everything is automated at an industrial scale.

How many can't do math anymore due to calculators? Endless examples, no?

Now we're down to thinking, down to investigating for ourselves or leaving it up to some technology that we don't really know who is in control of, nor their goals for humanity.

So I think as people we've been headed down a road to making ourselves obsolete, and without putting up much of a fight. We are giving up learning basic survival skills as a species, and increasingly leaving everything to technology that could instantly disappear one day in some known or unforseen global calamity.

It's strange the human species has not intentionally taken control of this process yet, isn't it? In some ways one wonders if there might actually be a plan to cull much of humanity now that this new force can do most of the work without these beings who in the minds of elitists only eat, shit, consume resources, and take up space. I've heard there might be a conspiracy or two about that, and AI seems to be the pinnacle we've been heading toward in order to complete our obsolecense as a species.

I've wondered if humanity has been through this techno cycle before, building from nothing to a collective technological marvel, and then it all explodes or caves in on itself and we are back to the stone age and the process begins all over again.

But that's silly, isn't it. Nevertheless, I wish we'd reach a point where we all learn the survival skills of life whether we think we need them or not. How to grow or hunt food, how to make fire, how to build structures, etc. etc.

And yeah, that would definitely include learning how to research information without AI. It seems to be wrong much of the time anyway. You end up believing something it scraped from Reddit or The Atlantic or some such.

It's always been said alreafy, though.
https://www.chesterton.org/quotations/the-cult-of-progress/