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There are 'hundreds' videos base on random studies, which shows potential brain damage from (too much) ai use.

I went to this bar popular with college students recently. Eavesdropped on two CS majors who were talking about how they rely on ChatGPT way too much and were trying to comfort themselves by saying that they could probably still get a job somewhere by relying on AI coding help.

Covid + genAI may have been the perfect 1-2 Combo for brain damage

All I can think about is how millionaires and billionaires have been experiencing that brain damage decades before us plebs got the chance to. How fried their brains must be.

Billionaire brain for the masses. Does all the same things to remove any critical thinking or push back only the affirmative coddling. Our brains shrivel under that is my hypothesis.

regardless, it's been great to interact with it, go "wow! that sucks", and go back to not using it

yeah like. up until recently the ability to get the equivalent of 10 kicks in the head from a horse per day was gated behind immense wealth in most cases. now anyone can annihilate their brain, more efficiently than ever before bsky.app/profile/stup...

yeah, i for a while have been trying to at least like: use the gps to drive somewhere for the first time and then try to use it less and then not at all when going to that place. but for a while i was literally using it for every drive that wasn't like, the local shop

The prime example for me was calculators. I was really good at mental arithmetic, then we got a teacher that forced us to use calculators, and now I can't calculate shit without reaching for that device. LLMs are a lot like that. It's easier to make them think, than to use ones own brain.

If I extrapolate from that, thinking about what could be lost if I let a word prediction machine or “art” creation machine take over other parts of my life? Fucking horrifying. I’m already trying to claw back parts of my cognition from COVID almost killing me and that’s a fucking nightmare

IMO the big reveal will be when the big models go offline when the bubble pops and maintaining them is no longer possible. there'll still be people using local models, but everyone who is burning tokens to have their phone talk to datacentres is gonna have to go cold-turkey.

I honestly think it's the same as billionaire brain disease; when someone else does all your thinking for you and all you get is sycophancy in return, your brain turns to custard.

If you can see the black mold outside the drywall already, there's almost always a much more rude awakening when you start peeling it back to take a look.

That's factual. www.polytechnique-insights.com/en/columns/n...

My hatred of minimaps has been scientifically proven? Oh fuck yeah

Nice. Speaking of GTA I'm sure you would have come across this by Alan Butler - Remaking Koyaanisqatsi in GTA V www.alanbutler.info/works/on-exa... and his earlier work photo documenting homelessness in GTA V www.alanbutler.info/works/down-a... I shared a few whiskeys with Alan, fascinating guy.

Wouldn't surprise me if AI had the same effect on people.