Here’s a thought: consider the potentially analogous case of performance-enhancing drugs for athletes. The drugs unambiguously make them better at their jobs, but the drugs have severe long-term health costs and wreak havoc on the fairness of the playing field. It’s easy to see why an athlete might choose not to use them, even when others are.
Of course, those negative factors alone are not enough to dissuade people en masse who want to get a leg up on their competitors, so the use of performance-enhancing drugs must be further restricted by institutional bans.
There are rules against using performance enhancing drugs in competitive sports, because ultimately the goal of the sport is entertainment, and the entertainment value increases with a rule based even playing field.
Business is not like this, because the value of what a business does is in its actual output, not in its entertainment value for spectators.
Of course there are other rules (legislative and regulatory) that apply, for other good reasons. But their goal is not to create an entertaining competitive environment, but rather to control externalities of what companies do.
I favor AI regulation, but I also don't think treating it like a performance enhancing drug would be a smart way to regulate it. Higher business productivity is useful to society in a way that breaking home run records is not.
Oh right. Along those lines sometimes I do long hand multiplication or division instead of using a calculator. I think it's a valuable skill. If I don't do it, I'll probably forget how.
Yep! But if I were doing my job as an accountant, I would not spend time doing any of that work using long hand division, I would use a spreadsheet. To me, it's a professionalism thing. If I'm doing a job, I should use the best tool (for me) for that job. (edit: I'm absolutely not suggesting that you are unprofessional! It sounds like AI tools are not the best tool for the job, for you. But they are for me, at the moment.) If I'm doing a hobby or personal development in general, then I can use whatever tools I want for that.
It's interesting though, for a long time I said that if I were going to do a personal programming project I was excited about, I would write all the code by hand, because I do really miss doing that, and I also worry about forgetting how to. But now I'm not so sure. I find my daydreaming about personal projects to be a lot more focused on the outcome than the process, lately. More like "wow, I could do so much in an hour or two a day now! think of the possibilities!" than an excitement about writing code and creating pleasant abstractions.
There are a lot of potential reasons.
Here’s a thought: consider the potentially analogous case of performance-enhancing drugs for athletes. The drugs unambiguously make them better at their jobs, but the drugs have severe long-term health costs and wreak havoc on the fairness of the playing field. It’s easy to see why an athlete might choose not to use them, even when others are.
Of course, those negative factors alone are not enough to dissuade people en masse who want to get a leg up on their competitors, so the use of performance-enhancing drugs must be further restricted by institutional bans.
There are rules against using performance enhancing drugs in competitive sports, because ultimately the goal of the sport is entertainment, and the entertainment value increases with a rule based even playing field.
Business is not like this, because the value of what a business does is in its actual output, not in its entertainment value for spectators.
Of course there are other rules (legislative and regulatory) that apply, for other good reasons. But their goal is not to create an entertaining competitive environment, but rather to control externalities of what companies do.
I favor AI regulation, but I also don't think treating it like a performance enhancing drug would be a smart way to regulate it. Higher business productivity is useful to society in a way that breaking home run records is not.
It's not actually useful for me. But I still use it anyway.
The total opposite thing :)
Oh right. Along those lines sometimes I do long hand multiplication or division instead of using a calculator. I think it's a valuable skill. If I don't do it, I'll probably forget how.
Yep! But if I were doing my job as an accountant, I would not spend time doing any of that work using long hand division, I would use a spreadsheet. To me, it's a professionalism thing. If I'm doing a job, I should use the best tool (for me) for that job. (edit: I'm absolutely not suggesting that you are unprofessional! It sounds like AI tools are not the best tool for the job, for you. But they are for me, at the moment.) If I'm doing a hobby or personal development in general, then I can use whatever tools I want for that.
It's interesting though, for a long time I said that if I were going to do a personal programming project I was excited about, I would write all the code by hand, because I do really miss doing that, and I also worry about forgetting how to. But now I'm not so sure. I find my daydreaming about personal projects to be a lot more focused on the outcome than the process, lately. More like "wow, I could do so much in an hour or two a day now! think of the possibilities!" than an excitement about writing code and creating pleasant abstractions.