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by j_shi 1115 days ago
Disagree there are sacred timeless skills we ought to protect; tech has and will continue to reduce our need to spend mental bandwidth on skills

Similar offline risk goes for all tech: navigation, generating energy, finding food & water.

And as others have noted, like other personal tools, ai will become more portable and efficient (see progress on self hosted, minimal, efficiently trained models like Vicuna that are 92% parity with OpenAI fancy model)

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Even if we don't "need" to protect them, they'll be practiced somewhere.

I can watch endless hours of people doing technically obsolete activities on YouTube right now.