> Sure. But somebody has to know these things. For many jobs, knowing these things isn’t beneficial, but for others it is.
I think you're missing the point of my comment. I'm not saying that human knowledge is useless. I'm specifically arguing against the case that:
> The irreducible answer to "why should I" is that it makes you ever-more-increasingly reliant on a teetering tower of fragile and interdependent supply chains furnished by for-profit companies who are all too eager to rake you over the coals to fulfill basic cognitive functions.
My logic being that we are already irreversibly dependent on supply chains.
You’re absolutely right. But my point still stands, too, which is that despite being irreversibly dependent on supply chains, doesn’t mean we are redundant. We still need people at all levels of the supply chain.
Maybe it’s fewer people, yes, but it’ll take quite a leap forward in AI ability to replace all the specialists we will continue to require, especially as the less-able AI makes messes that need to be cleaned up.
I think you're missing the point of my comment. I'm not saying that human knowledge is useless. I'm specifically arguing against the case that:
> The irreducible answer to "why should I" is that it makes you ever-more-increasingly reliant on a teetering tower of fragile and interdependent supply chains furnished by for-profit companies who are all too eager to rake you over the coals to fulfill basic cognitive functions.
My logic being that we are already irreversibly dependent on supply chains.