On the tendency to think that

When you follow the procedure and do it without problems, you have not learned anything because you have not made any mistakes, you have simply engaged in labor as a machine that executes according to the manual, and so on.

relevance

  • Positive thinking about failure
  • The idea that machines are better at “doing it right” than Homo sapiens, and therefore it is right to leave it to machines, seems to be behind the idea.

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