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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
seanconneraille
creaturrre-fear

I’m going to reference a widely-used term in public education to explain why I think AI may be softening our brains

“Whoever is doing the thinking is doing the learning.”

By asking artificial intelligence to do tasks that otherwise take minimal brain function, you are literally sacrificing the neural pathways your brain has built in order to do that task.

Imagine a world in which AI suddenly disappears. All of the skills you left to AI would essentially need to be relearned. That would be far more inconvenient than just taking care of the task yourself.

“Whoever is doing the thinking is doing the learning.”

wenchofthescullery

THIS.

It's not that using AI or machine learning to do specific tasks is inherently a bad thing, just because it's AI technology. It's that you can't offload your own learning and skills development to AI. You can offload rote tasks that aren't developing your skills, but you can't offload yourself. You end up just giving that away, and it costs far more to buy it back.

consistent-sincerity

There's a great term called "Cognitive Debt," which basically represents the intellectual atrophy you get from not exercising your brain. Originally the phrase was used in Alzheimer's research to describe mental decline but it's crossed over into AI studies.

(PDF) Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
PDF | This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups:
ResearchGate

Your mind is a muscle.

lovemustdie
girlmostlikely

The social attitude regarding age is consistently getting weirder. You’re not ‘pushing 30’ you’re just in your late 20s. 30 is not old and neither is 40 while I’m at it. Growing older is an enormous privilege and displaying that age is a gorgeous component of life. Spending your days trying to reverse that grace breeds an eternally wasted life.

iplaywithstring

Life got better after 30, and even better after 40. Relationships are different, my worldview is different, my concept of myself is different. I have more peace, more compassion, more contentment than 20 year old me could have imagined.

Growing, aging, changing is a gift! It is a privilege! Tomorrow is never guaranteed, let alone next year or a decade from now. Treasure it when you get there.

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tlirsgender

Being an evil doppelganger has to be so fucked up like imagine meeting a better version of yourself. Some chain of events going differently that led to "you" being a better person in a way you can never achieve. Personally I'd have no other option but to try and kill them

tlirsgender

It's always "oh no my evil clone or twin or whatever is trying to kill me" and never How is my evil clone? Says a lot about society