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by shmichael 434 days ago
Inventing the automobile has clearly made humanity less fit. Should we stop driving?

No. Going back to the stone age is not the solution. For the majority of our day, commuting without a vehicle will be impractical. So will coding without AI, especially as AI improves.

To retain human competency, we will have to find a novel solution. For walking, we created concentrated practice time - gyms/outdoor runs. Some evolution of leetcode, or even an AI guided training, might be the solution for coding skill preservation.
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tasuki 434 days ago
> Inventing the automobile has clearly made humanity less fit. Should we stop driving?

Yes, pretty please.

I live in a town of 400 thousand, it's basically 10 kilometers accross. Very easily walkable. Why does everyone drive? I'm about as fast on foot as when they're stuck in morning traffic. I'm also enjoying my time more than the people stuck in traffic. (And I'd enjoy it even more if there weren't so many cars around!)

I don't understand people who drive to the gym to walk there. They could just walk to the gym and back, instead of going to the gym...

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hyperjeff 434 days ago
> Inventing the automobile has clearly made humanity less fit. Should we stop driving?

Perhaps an apt analogy. One could argue that the lure of convenience of automobiles led to one of the worst decisions of the 20th century, to restructure society around automobiles, causing a self-perpetuating reliance feedback loop with many destructive side-effects (physical, environmental and cultural). We should pause a bit and not rush head-long into AI without trying to think the path forward through. It's a decision that we will all make together as a culture. There are many current troubles with AI already, even if they make no mistakes at all.

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