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AI Risks Decaying Human Mastery by Outsourcing Effortful Practice

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Rachel Thomas@math_rachel#314inTech

"Mastery is not about creating more outputs or products. It is about building genuine ability. AI can either decay or support human mastery.

The people selling you AI models & your bosses at work don’t care about your mastery. They will put you in the decay world every time."

8:05 PM · Jun 10, 2026 · 2.4K Views
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Rachel Thomas@math_rachel

from @jeremyphoward's keynote on human flourishing in the time of AI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUZwYV5JYBM @aiDotEngineer

Rachel Thomas@math_rachel

"Mastery is not about creating more outputs or products. It is about building genuine ability. AI can either decay or support human mastery.

The people selling you AI models & your bosses at work don’t care about your mastery. They will put you in the decay world every time."

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Invincible@InvincibleEdge

@math_rachel the autonomy and mastery table layout is doing a lot of heavy lifting here

bosses def want the decay version tho

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Rugbist@rugbist_

@math_rachel Most people just want faster outputs, not deeper ability. That second paragraph needed to be said.

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