I think it’s pretty ob. I mean, there’s so many studies now suggesting. How dangerous they are. And it’s a very difficult thing because the defense of the situation is, this has always been true. It’s sort of what culture is, pencil and paper with this in a way. Now I believe that they’re making a mistake when they make that comparison, because that for me is complimentary, not competitive.
It amplifies your reasoning, it doesn’t destroy it. So it’s a bit sloppy on their part. But nevertheless, uh, it is true that we’re all dependent on these things and they give us time to do other things, you know? Um, I don’t think we’ve reached that singularity yet where it’s obvious. Right. In other words, when I talk to young students, there’s no, I mean, they seem quite brilliant to me, and I’m not convinced that they’re not thinking every bit as carefully as I did, or probably thinking more carefully.
Um, But I do think now with these machine learning technologies, there’s a real prospect that people will give up on being discerning. And if, if you stop making decisions, you just follow recommendations based on your history, that will be a significant phase transition, if you like, in the style in which humans have reasoned in the past.
Um, and I do think it will make us more controllable by correlation, right? In other words, if you become accustomed to being told what to do in one domain, you’re probably gonna be willing to be told what to do in another.
This is an excerpt from a larger interview but it’s sorta warning against relying on machine learning for your preferences since it would weaken your ability to be able to make your own decisions.
that last one seems like an exaggeration. I don’t know if by history he means your personal history or not. Also this doesn’t even get into free will and whether we really make our own decisions.