Has anyone named this effect? I have seen it implicitly discussed but not explicitly. Human capability degrading faster than automation capability increases, creating a transient death-trap period where risks are very high. I call it the automation death trap effect.
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People assume human abilities stay constant while automation is improving. They don’t. The general degradation starts the moment you begin trusting the automation for *anything* because unused or rarely used skills degrade at the rate reinforcement schedule slows.
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Hmm I don’t think so. There is little to no element of real-time risk in that case. Just accumulating inefficiency. Worst case, you forget something and have to look it up. Your car doesn’t crash in the meantime.
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Yeah I wrote about that once. Still, not a loss/risk that bothers me much.
