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It was helpful, I got pretty far along in collegiate math without tutors or assistance thanks to the hard calculation skills I drilled into my head.
But, counterpoint, if I leave my calculator/computer/all in one everything device at home on any given day it can ruin my entire day. I haven't gone 72 hours without a calculator in nearly a decade.
Dumb is accidental or genetic.
AI won't affect how dumb we are.
I think they will decrease the utility of crystalline knowledge skills and increase our fluid knowledge skills. Smart people will still find ways to thrive in the environment.
Human intelligence will continue moving forward.
That's the wrong way to think about it, because the stock price is about all future profit over time, not the current moment. Over the next 50 years, which one do you think will have made more profit?
Imagine you're in the year 1900, and you're comparing a light bulb company with a steam engine company. Industry needs steam engines, you say! Half the world would paralyze if they stopped working! Meanwhile, who cares about a light bulb company?
But you can understand why light bulbs actually turned out to make much more money moving forwards.
Love the vague randomly applicable prophetic lines in Gibson's work.
Now we have to change this and many other configurations on every update.
Still 1000x times better than Edge, Chrome or Brave, but this was not necessary.
Then there's also the overhead of setting up and maintaining the hardware in their location. It's not just a "solve this problem for ~$2,000 and be done with it".
I don't know the actual specs or requirements. Maybe 1 build server is sufficient, but from what I know there's nearly 4,000 apps on FDroid. 1 server might be swamped handling that much overhead in a timely manner.