I don't think that we should not use tools to offload tedious work

However there must be tradeoffs, right?

Take physical fitness for an example. We built machines to automate a ton of physical labour for us. Many of us no longer work long hours in hard labour jobs. A single excavator driver can move more earth faster than a team of people with shovels could even hope to

How's our physical fitness as a society these days? Yes part of that problem is that we eat terrible foods, but still. The sedentary lifestyle plays its part in the obesity epidemic too

I think it's reasonable to speculate that "we no longer need to think much, just pilot the AI" will similarly decrease our mental capabilities

Well, that's one of the more terrifying things I've heard this week...

Trapping us all in a simulation does seem like the same general idea