Gyms For All The Skills That LLMs Are Eating?
We used to do manual labor which had the dual benefit of getting the things we needed (hunt->food, work->money, etc.) and keeping us in reasonable physical (and mental) condition.
To fight the entropy, many of us go to the gym. We simulate the labor we used to do in order to keep our bodies in good condition and reap the rewards (energy, look/feel better, longer life, etc.).
Paul Graham has tweeted ideas like this many times, mainly about writing is thinking and LLMs are taking away the need to write, and in turn our skills in clear thinking. Nod.
Okay. Paul Graham’s Oct 2024 piece titled “Writes and Write-Nots” is on exactly this, and probably lodged in the back of my head forcing my notions. I never claimed to have original ideas :)
… Almost all pressure to write has dissipated. You can have AI do it for you, both in school and at work. […] Isn’t it common for skills to disappear when technology makes them obsolete? There aren’t many blacksmiths left, and it doesn’t seem to be a problem.
