[cortesoft]

I am curious where you draw your line. We have all sorts of “machines that do the hard things for you”, do you shun them all? Cars, washing machines, lawnmowers, etc…

I know that AI has some different characteristics than those technologies, but my point is that I don’t think your issue is that does the hard things for you… there has to be something else going on.

[ofjcihen]

I don’t know that washing machines have replaced understanding things on a deep level but if they have for you I’m very curious to hear how.

[whattheheckheck]

The zen of doing your chores by hand

[theshrike79]

There's a specific set of people who get a Zen feeling from doing things the long way.

I'm not one of those, my brain doesn't give me any more dopamine whether I spent a long time doing a thing or took a shortcut. I don't even get dopamine from completing the task, I just get a list of more things that need to be done.

[customguy]

Thinking about the world and oneself isn't a repetitive chore in the way washing your clothes is.

"I doubt, therefore I think, I think, therefore I am" -- if I no longer think, what's left? Biomass? Why us then.. why not goo, or just more parking space?

[whattheheckheck]

Energy and awareness. Were more empty than whole and the cells that do make up an invididual are not 100% human. And all of it the periodic table of elements

[nunez]

fwiw i still wash my clothes by hand when I travel! it's a very useful skill!

[tacostakohashi]

Another example of a machine that does the hard things for you that springs to mind is... a computer.

[fatbird]

Are you this patronizing and condescending in the rest of your life?

[cortesoft]

I am sorry if I came off that way, that was not my intent.