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Comment by paulcole | Hacker News Reader

I don’t know how my ipad works but I like using it a lot. I have no clue how strawberries get from a field to my grocery store but I really like eating them.

There’s a limit to how much I am willing to learn and there’s a heck of a lot of things I’ll just accept at face value because I believe they make my life better.

So far AI makes my life better so I don’t particularly care to learn about it.

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The assertion here is that there is a negative correlation between knowledge of AI and enjoyment of AI. For both iPads and Strawberries, I expect you would not like them less were you to learn more about them.

Ignorance is bliss.

How fun do you think the ipad factories and strawberry fields are to work in? How many pesticides are on the strawberries? How many people in Africa get killed so some warlord can run the cobalt mines.

That's a fine and reasonable take, but that's not what the article is about at all

> those with less understanding may see AI as magical and awe inspiring. We suggest this sense of magic makes them more open to using AI tools.

> this link between lower literacy and higher receptivity persists even though people with lower AI literacy are more likely to view AI as less capable, less ethical, and even a bit scary

I would also venture a guess that someone on hacker news who claims they know nothing about how an ipad or produce transport works isn't necessarily someone to pay close attention to.

I can kinda bullshit an answer about chips and whatever or that there’s fertilizer and migrant labor involved.

But do I really know anything beyond what I’ve read in a New Yorker article that I skimmed? Not really.

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