[goatlover]

That’s the message of Frank Herbert in the Dune universe regarding machines. They’re useful up until you start letting them do the thinking for you. Which leads to laziness, stagnation and control by an elite. So did reliance on spice for that matter.

[carapace]

> Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

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This is good and well for existing minds, but I think a lot of people will let these machines raise their children and that might cripple them. Like if you let your kids use a wheelchair instead of learning to walk? It's an imperfect metaphor.

[goatlover]

The new movie M3GAN raises that question. It's not a great movie, but even without the eventual horror elements, it would raise disturbing implications for creating doll robots that can do the work of parenting so parents can focus on what they really care about, like work.

[j45]

Similar to using GPS vs the cognitive load not to and learning navigation with maps and memorization.

Or back up cameras in a car.