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Why Even Try If You Have A.I.?
As A.I. grows more powerful, we may be more and more tempted to give up in advance and let it figure out things for us. What will we lose as a result?
Not long ago, in her weekly newsletter, the owner of my local bookstore wrote about some trees in front of her shop, which the town had cut down; it had promised to plant new ones but hadn’t yet done so. Perhaps there are especially unpleasant mental tasks (for example, learning how to adjust and readjust your family’s travel plans when illness strikes) that offer benefits we too readily overlook: the cultivation of patience, the taming of frustration, attention to detail, the calibration of optimism and pessimism. People who are serious about fitness have all sorts of ways to keep track of their performance: they wear heart-rate monitors, or try to lower their marathon times, or take on new challenges meant to reveal their weak points.
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