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by hnthrow10282910 10 days ago
Why learn math when a calculator can do it? Why read a book if AI can summarise it? Why walk to the store if someone can deliver it?

There is no free lunch. The trade off is you get short term gains and long term cognitive dementia. You become a useless generalist.

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You are right. I phrased the title bad, now I'm thinking of not the why, but how to keep learning with the goal of that long term thing and I think the answer is something that I must think about myself... something personal