As you say, figuring things out for ourselves, thinking and learning and taking pride in skills that take effort to acquire… most of what I cherish about these things has to do with grappling with new territory. And if I know that it is not in fact new, if all of it could be easier were I to use the technology right there… it feels as though something is corrupted… The beauty of curiosity, wonder, and discovery feels deeply bound to the unknown, to me.
This is a very strange mindset. It’s already not new! Almost everything you can learn is already known by other people; most thoughts you can think have been thought before; most skills, other people have mastered more thoroughly than you’re likely to. (If you only mean new to you in particular, on the other hand, AI can’t remove the novelty; you’d have to experience it for it to stop being novel). Why would you derive your value from a premise that’s false?
This is a very strange mindset. It’s already not new! Almost everything you can learn is already known by other people; most thoughts you can think have been thought before; most skills, other people have mastered more thoroughly than you’re likely to. (If you only mean new to you in particular, on the other hand, AI can’t remove the novelty; you’d have to experience it for it to stop being novel). Why would you derive your value from a premise that’s false?