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AI is rotting your brain and making you stupid
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this post was submitted on 27 May 2025
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The article says stupid, not dumb. If I'm not mistaken, the difference is like being intelligent versus being smart. When you stop using the brain muscle that's responsible for researching, digging thru trash and bunch of obscure websites for info, using critical thinking to filter and refine your results, etc., that muscle will become atrophied.
You have essentially gone from being a researcher to being a reader.
By that logic probably shouldn't use a search engine and you should go to a library to look things up manually in a book, like I did.
"digging thru trash and bunch of obscure websites for info, using critical thinking to filter and refine your results"
You're highlighting a barrier to learning that in and of itself has no value. It's like arguing that kids today should learn cursive because you had to and it exercises the brain! Don't fool yourself into thinking that just because you did something one way that it's the best way. The goal is to learn and find solutions to problems. Whatever tool allows you to get there the easiest is the best one.
Learning through textbooks and one way absorption of information is not an efficient way to learn. Having the ability to ask questions and challenge a teacher (in this case the AI), is a far superior way to learn IMHO.
It has no value as long as those tools are available to you. Like calculator, where nowadays everyone's so used to them people have became pretty bad at math in head. While this is indeed not an issue since calculators are widely available to everyone, we're not really talking about doing math, but using critical thinking, which is a very important skill in your daily life
EDIT: Disclaimer: I'm a vivid AI user and I've defended it here before, but I'm not about to start kidding myself that letting the AI analyize and think for me makes me more intelligent
Were people ever very good at math in head?
There are those who have become calculator dependent who might not have if there were no calculators, but I'd say they're a small middle ground. Some people are still good at math in their head, and even when they are, they should be using a calculator when it's available to double check their math when it might be in question.
At the lower end of the scale, there are people who never would have been able to do math in head, but with calculator can do math all day without problem, except when they mis-key the question and have no idea that the answer is wrong, because they have no sense of math without the calculator.
Why bother learning anything when you can get the answer in a fraction of a second ?
The brain pathways used to control the fine-motor skills for cursive writing can doubtless be put to other uses.
Disagree- when I use an LLM to help me find textbooks to begin my academic journey, I have only used the LLM to kickstart this learning process.
That's not really what I was talking about. It would be closer to asking ChatGPT to make summary of said books instead of reading them