Comment by slibhb
3 days ago
Yes, and textile factories involved people "forgetting" how to weave. Whitehead:
"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them"
It remains to be seen whether this implies some kind of constraint on human progress. I doubt it.
We're not talking about replacing "writing code", we're talking about replacing your ability to think about the problems critically at all.
People said the exact same thing about computers.
So?
The research on AI is showing again and again that people that use AI are losing their skills not just in the specific task but more generally. This isn't a "change of skills" it's a fundamental reduction in the skills of knowledge workers.
If we suddenly needed huge amounts of textile or clothing, we would run into same issues. This is not about progress as such.