Comment by epistasis
3 days ago
> Not the way I was thinking off; I was thinking more along the lines of brain atrophy until humans are helpless (maybe 2 complete generations of humans).
That's not how humans work. We developed math, art, literature, etc., because people love the act of doing it. We will continue to do that.
We're not going to stop thinking because we don't have to. We stop thinking because we subject ourselves to political propaganda, or religious belief systems, or other group control methods that turns off critical thought. But even then, it's only a subset of the population, it won't get us all.
> That's not how humans work. We developed math, art, literature, etc., because people love the act of doing it. We will continue to do that.
Sure, for art, literature, etc. For math, physics, biosciences, etc, we pay people to do it. There are too few people who would work for free to push progress in those areas. We are most certainly not going to do that, we're going to leave it to the AIs and hope for the best.
This sort of thing (human brains atrophying over generations) is like something out of a dystopian nightmare[1], but hey, that's natural selection for you: if intelligence is not a selection criteria (and it won't be if machines do all the thinking), it's unlikely that it will be present in future generations.
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[1]. "The Machine Stops", E. M. Forster, 1907. Or "Pump 6" (can't remember the author, Italian author). Just because it's fiction does not mean it's impossible.