I think it was Steve Jobs who said computers should be like a bicycle for the mind, I tend to agree

embedding-shape 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah, Douglas Engelbart was also a huge believer in that, and I think from various stuff I've read from him and the Augmentation Research Center put me on this track of really agreeing with it.

"Bicycle for the mind", as always when it involves Jobs, sounds more fitting for the masses though, so thanks for sharing that :)

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axus 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Agents are a "self-driving car for the mind". I don't enjoy or dislike driving, but lots of Americans love to drive. In the future they will lament their driving skills' decline.

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ivell 6 hours ago | parent [-]

We as the general population have consistently lost lots of skills from just 200 years back. Most likely we will not miss them (though coding used to be my hobby).

Though if apocalypse happens and all of our built tech goes away, we are in for a serious survival issu.

	▲	Barrin92 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		>Most likely we will not miss them given that we've also lost the faculty to look at the past with anything other than contempt most people wouldn't even know what they miss. The little problem with losing the 'general cognition' department, just like broad social or cultural decline is that you lose the ability to even judge what you're losing, because the thing you just lost was doing the judging

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jcgrillo 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I love this Jobs quote for two reasons:

(1) It captures the ideal so well

(2) The bitter irony of how thoroughly pre-OS X Macintosh computers failed to live up to it

I feel like there's a similar dichotomy in LLM tools now