How Powerful Tools can Cause Complacency

T.REX TALK

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🗓️ 5 November 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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The more powerful a tool or a weapon is, the easier it is for its users to get lazy when using it. As more and more tools get automatic features, it gets easier for us to be lulled into a false sense of competence. How can we make the most of these improved capabilities without losing the deliberate skill and planning that previous tools required?

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of T-Rex Talk. This is kind of a part two. Last week we talked about
0:07.3	information, just the sheer profusion of information that is available about any and all topics
0:13.3	to basically the entire population of the world today, thanks to the internet and various other
0:18.7	content creation tools. So the amount of information
0:21.9	that exists kind of has the potential to not only empower people to do almost anything that they
0:27.9	want, but also kind of paralyze them because there's just so much information that is available.
0:33.2	And being able to have access to all that information is just overwhelming and sometimes even
0:38.6	discouraging to see the incredible level of skill and capability that's required to get to
0:45.0	the best, the best. If you missed that episode, you can go back and listen to it, but you also
0:49.8	just basically heard the entire point of the episode, which is fairly similar to what we're
0:53.6	going to be talking about today, which is in addition to the incredible amount of information that is
0:59.2	available, today's citizen of the 21st century, especially in the West, has access to tools
1:06.7	that are incredibly powerful compared to the things that came before, even just 50 years ago.
1:12.9	And the power of those tools has an incredible empowering capability, just like the sheer
1:20.4	quantity of information, but it also sort of has the same chilling effect. It has the capability
1:27.2	to make us feel really lazy and put more
1:29.7	confidence in those tools than we really should. So let's talk about a few areas in which that is the
1:35.2	case. Now first I want to go on record and say that powerful tools are very good. Tools should be
1:41.5	powerful. Tools exist to do a job and the better they do that job, the better. That seems
1:48.8	really obvious to say, and you all know this. A sharp knife is not only better at cutting than a
1:54.2	dull knife, a sharp knife is actually safer than a dull knife. A powerful firearm that is really accurate is not only more effective
2:04.2	at doing its job than a weak and inaccurate firearm, but it's actually going to be safer because
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