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- Embed this noticeYes, but you have already learned how to do things on your own. An 11 year old using AI for everything won't learn how to do things on her own. She'll be permanently dependent on the crutch.
I've read the take long time ago that there are two kinds of tools. One kind extends human capabilities. With a ship you can cross an ocean no human could swim. With a wrench you can tighten a screw that you couldn't tighten enough just by hand.
The second kind of tool athropies and replaces a human capability, so the human can't do it anymore. Think how many people would be lost with just a paper map, without GPS. How many people can't do basic arithmetic on paper, without a calculator.
Some time ago I spent an evening on the beach with some fresh college grads. They didn't know how to start a fire. You know, putting paper and small branches at the bottom. They just dumped a big fucking log in the middle and wondered why the fire won't start.