"The cost of physical machines is human obesity," writes Daisy Christodoulou, while "the cost of intelligent machines is human stupidity." It's an interesting analogy. We're familiar with how skilled people can become with practice: people who work in markets counting change, for example. But it's not a one-sided exchange. We would not want to go back to the days when being a human 'calculator' was a necessary skill. Similarly, people may weigh more today, but they also live longer. And I think there are limits to the analogy - unlike the case of physical weight, new types of mental skills can replace the old skills.
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