So here in the WSJ we have direct evidence that people, such as pilots, who allow automation (such as autopilot) to take over for their skills, lose their skills very quickly.
The article reasonably concludes this is dangerous because pilots come to accept what automation does and react to the operation of the automation instead of acting proactively taking control of the plan and allow the automation to "help."
So what does this say about cars, for example, and the automation that is increasingly taking over their operation?
One is reminded of the novel "The Humanoids" by Jack Williamson where, under the guise of "To Serve and Obey, And Guard Men From Harm" take away everything man does for himself (such as driving a car, reading, doing everyday tasks) because they might be dangerous. Man is left to sit in a padded room where everything is done for him by Humanoids.
Basically we are becoming stupid through use of our own machines that 'help' us each day.
I have written on this blog elsewhere where even the ability of young males in today's society to have normal sexual relations is thwarted by the plentiful pornography the wireless devices bring (I can't find the link here or in my other blogs but it was some TED video - perhaps lost by google when deleting my old posts).
I have also written how modern feminism has stripped away from young me the ability to be men (see this old post).
Here (and there are more related thoughts being published if you google "domestication neural crest") we see that science thinks domestication is a process of creating less-than-fully-capable animals.
So does our own automation do this?
One would have to agree that it does.
I wonder if things like "government aid" accomplishes the same?
Certainly there are scenarios where aid is appropriate but as a lifestyle when one is fully able to work the consequences of "helpful intervention" in the long term would seem to diminish the capacity of those who receive it.
More "self driving" cars will simply make people as drivers less able, just as with pilots.
One imagines government programs dispensing food will there also make those receiving it less able to acquire it on their own. Ditto for jobs, and so forth as well.
Oh well at least people will be having fun while getting dumber...
The article reasonably concludes this is dangerous because pilots come to accept what automation does and react to the operation of the automation instead of acting proactively taking control of the plan and allow the automation to "help."
So what does this say about cars, for example, and the automation that is increasingly taking over their operation?
One is reminded of the novel "The Humanoids" by Jack Williamson where, under the guise of "To Serve and Obey, And Guard Men From Harm" take away everything man does for himself (such as driving a car, reading, doing everyday tasks) because they might be dangerous. Man is left to sit in a padded room where everything is done for him by Humanoids.
Basically we are becoming stupid through use of our own machines that 'help' us each day.
I have written on this blog elsewhere where even the ability of young males in today's society to have normal sexual relations is thwarted by the plentiful pornography the wireless devices bring (I can't find the link here or in my other blogs but it was some TED video - perhaps lost by google when deleting my old posts).
I have also written how modern feminism has stripped away from young me the ability to be men (see this old post).
Here (and there are more related thoughts being published if you google "domestication neural crest") we see that science thinks domestication is a process of creating less-than-fully-capable animals.
So does our own automation do this?
One would have to agree that it does.
I wonder if things like "government aid" accomplishes the same?
Certainly there are scenarios where aid is appropriate but as a lifestyle when one is fully able to work the consequences of "helpful intervention" in the long term would seem to diminish the capacity of those who receive it.
More "self driving" cars will simply make people as drivers less able, just as with pilots.
One imagines government programs dispensing food will there also make those receiving it less able to acquire it on their own. Ditto for jobs, and so forth as well.
Oh well at least people will be having fun while getting dumber...
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