Will reliance on LLMs neuter our minds the same way that reliance on machinery has withered our bodies.

The claim I made was that “work worth doing” was worth doing because of its effect on human beings. This is not the same thing as “work worth producing”.

Ex: practicing scales on my guitar is work worth doing, because of its effect on me, not because it produces anything of value in itself or of interest to anyone. It is meaningless that my computer can do scales vastly better than I can, because the production of scales is not what makes the work worth doing.

I disagree.

If the work leads to the production of something worthwhile net of any other losses from the work, the work is "worth doing."

So "work worth producing" is, at minimum, a subset of "work worth doing"