An interesting read, thanks for the link. I think your analysis is more at a sociological level — which builds on top of the evolutionary viewpoint I’m advocating for here. Evolutionary psychology suggests why certain types of memes propagate, sociology studies what happen when they do. I would expect that completing Value Learning would require making a great deal of progress in all the “Soft Sciences”. On the specific idea of avoiding loss of skills, I suspect you are being a little optimistic (after decades of calculators, relatively few people can still do long division), but this does seem related to the idea of avoiding loss of optionalty I mention briefly above.
An interesting read, thanks for the link. I think your analysis is more at a sociological level — which builds on top of the evolutionary viewpoint I’m advocating for here. Evolutionary psychology suggests why certain types of memes propagate, sociology studies what happen when they do. I would expect that completing Value Learning would require making a great deal of progress in all the “Soft Sciences”. On the specific idea of avoiding loss of skills, I suspect you are being a little optimistic (after decades of calculators, relatively few people can still do long division), but this does seem related to the idea of avoiding loss of optionalty I mention briefly above.