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by NathanKP 412 days ago
Back to AI: Would you agree that the problem comes when no knows how to think any more, not when most people don't?

Personally, I'm pretty concerned about both. The fact that many people don't have basic survival skills like sourcing their own food, safe drinking water, and heat. And the fact that that many people lack basic thinking skills: ability to detect misinformation, or deal with the challenges and inaccuracies of flaky AI.

In an ideal world society everyone who is capable has a higher level of training in both. But under modern oligarchic capitalism there are advantages to ensuring that people have neither skill: survival or thinking.