I don't have anything much to add, because I agree with this entirely.
The other thing I would add is that in their terror of friction (and of the way that learning is often difficult, not linear, and requires you to make connections and mistakes), what they seem to want is for all learning done as an adult (or even a conscious child) to feel like learning does as an infant/very young toddler. Most of us can't remember what it felt like to learn to crawl, walk, eat, pick things up and drop them, talk, and so on — it just kind of happened, and then we were walking. When we leave this stage of development behind, learning any skill is a more conscious (often self-conscious) process, and it's usually going to involve being bad at the thing for a while before — with a mixture of effort, understanding, and repetition — we gain new abilities. (Obviously babies also make mistakes when they're learning to walk and so on, but it doesn't bother them because they don't feel self-conscious.)
They don't want that, because it makes them feel vulnerable (and I could possibly extrapolate some things about their childhoods and whether they were raised in environments in which it felt safe to make mistakes or lack skill in something before learning how to do it), and all vulnerability is to be smoothed away with AI and other tech solutions.
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The other thing I would add is that in their terror of friction (and of the way that learning is often difficult, not linear, and requires you to make connections and mistakes), what they seem to want is for all learning done as an adult (or even a conscious child) to feel like learning does as an infant/very young toddler. Most of us can't remember what it felt like to learn to crawl, walk, eat, pick things up and drop them, talk, and so on — it just kind of happened, and then we were walking. When we leave this stage of development behind, learning any skill is a more conscious (often self-conscious) process, and it's usually going to involve being bad at the thing for a while before — with a mixture of effort, understanding, and repetition — we gain new abilities. (Obviously babies also make mistakes when they're learning to walk and so on, but it doesn't bother them because they don't feel self-conscious.)
They don't want that, because it makes them feel vulnerable (and I could possibly extrapolate some things about their childhoods and whether they were raised in environments in which it felt safe to make mistakes or lack skill in something before learning how to do it), and all vulnerability is to be smoothed away with AI and other tech solutions.