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by intended 62 days ago
The calculator analogy comes up very often, and it’s a good one because it also illustrates where AI diverges.

The other analogy is taking a forklift to the gym. Sure you lift weights, but you don’t really do any exercise to develop your own muscles.

AI automates a significant chunk of the exercises. So you are left with people who didn’t build any mental muscles.

This would be bad enough, but it’s worse because AI severely benefits experts who have build mental reflexes/taste and can judge / verify output with minimum information.