>Ok... but are automobiles also a virus?

Yes.

>Because we've become dependent on them?

Because we're burning the planet down with them.

>Should we also facilitate reversibility in our automobile usage?

Yes, because in places we do people enjoy higher qualities of life and happiness. Along with things like health improvement from doing more excersize.

>What about cooking food? We've become entirely dependent on cooking food.

Moreso we've become dependent on eating processed junk over the past 50 years and gotten fat as shit.

So yea, maybe think a little more deeply about your analogies?

>What about cooking food? We've become entirely dependent on cooking food.

Hmm maybe it always feels "different" to every generation going through automation of something previously un-automated, but don't you feel that to some extent this is different.

Humans have been the dominant species because of our ability to think, not our ability to get from A to B in any particular way/cook food. If we abstract ~the bulk of our thinking to LLMs, don't we lose something as a species which makes us more vulnerable... Or is it always the case during an automation?

> Should we also facilitate reversibility in our automobile usage

Yes?

I'm not sure what the point you're making is.

We're in the midst of figuring out what the tradeoffs are of LLM usage - all the things you list are already mostly known and found worth it. You trade a tiny amount of time and fuel to cook food in exchange for not getting sick. How is that relevant to anything?

Jared Diamond explores this in his book Collapse.

The core idea being that each time humanity was going to exceed the carrying capacity of its environment, we invented a new technology which increased the headroom. Obviously this ratchet only goes in one direction. The only way to go backwards is collapse.

But... It's worked so far?

> What about cooking food? We've become entirely dependent on cooking food.

In evolutionary time, we lost the ability to digest raw meat because we offloaded so much of process of the digestion to the cultural technology of cooking.

Do you like the looks of a future where that happens but for thinking?

No, because walking around or eating raw food wasn't essential to being human. Thinking is.