Yes, I can sort of see that. That the proper use of tools is to allow humans to become more efficient, not to replace them or make them obsolete, so humans should always work in parallel with their tools and refine their tools and expand their tools. Interact with their tools or leverage their changes to their tools by surveying.
They shouldn't fall for the fallacy that the Creation can be greater than the Creator.
An interesting dichotemy - the local vs the macro. You have your goal to reach, and you'll try to get their as fast as possible. Find perceived straight lines and slam on the gas. Yet, the meandering around is what helps learn the landscape in the long run, not the straight lines.
Perceived because you might think you're taking shortcuts at first, but you might just be sending yourself into circles trying to leave the forest. Even worse, your overconfidence developed from using those shortcuts can make you even more lost when you don't have access to them and the stakes are high. You want to be lost at your own volition, not when the forest monster is stalking you.
I've noticed this, my whole life. I've continued to do activities that everyone else abandoned -- or even added new ones -- and now I look like a universal genius.
But it is simply that I persist, even when automation is superior, because I think the honing of mind and body is too valuable to capitulate to the machines. At the same time that I always learn to also leverage the machines.
And this, ironically, is precisely what keeps me ahead of the machines, and independent of machines.
It begins with very simple questions.
Why learn to play an instrument or read music?
Why learn to read anything, at all?
But it ends with more advanced questions.
Why learn how relays work? Why learn how code is compiled or interpreted?
It's always funny, how people are offended at how much influence I have upon the protocol and the developers, but they are missing the point that I've taken the time to FIGURE OUT HOW THESE THINGS WORK.
Knowledge really is power, and knowledge within yourself is the greatest power.
So, David Goggins - man is batshit crazy doing what he does. But that's it, he lives to overcome his own pain. He was on Andrew Huberman's podcast where it was mentioned that there is a region in the brain that gets stronger from doing things you don't enjoy - like actually loath it. Not that "it's painful but yadayada", actually hating every fiber in your body that is actaully engaged in the activity, and still doing it.
There's something profoundly human about that.
