The benefits of lazy parenting.
My wife and I often look at ourselves as lazy parents. From as early as the kids could manage, we would expect them to get up and get their own water or snack or dress themselves or even shower themselves. On some occasions, the kids, at 4 and 6, would do the entire bedtime routine, saying goodnight downstairs, and then go up, shower, dress, teeth, and bed on their own.
Sometimes we feel guilty, but the kids love the independence we give them. We give them endless love, we show it, but we avoid doing things for them as much as possible.
I figure there’s a fine line here, but I believe my kids are quite independent for their ages and so I condone and promote lazy parenting.
We’re on the verge of all having AI assistants. I have my own OpenClaw bot, though yet to make it what I need it to be. My OpenClaw doesn’t have much memory yet, I haven’t made it focus on regular self-improvement, and I haven’t trained it on anything. So this brings me to my point—we’ll all have AI assistants, but they will differ vastly in their capability, similarly to how we as humans differ.
To take this slightly further, those with highly trained and powerful bots will be able to achieve almost infinitely more than those with average, run of the mill bots, and the gap between what an average person can achieve and what a highly motivated person can achieve will increase wildly.