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i really think genai causes actual brain damage. probably faster than most ways you can on purpose give yourself brain damage. and if you hear this statement as literally as i mean it i think it sounds sorta conspiracy nut, but undeniably less conspiracy nut than the apparent sum of its parts

i think we're not gonna fully hear about what exactly it did to people for years, it's by nature hard to see and hard to look right at, but i think it starts to actively corrode your ability to think, basically immediately, on impact, passing cleanly between your existing cognitive defenses

i think gen ai is like termites for your brain. gets in your head without you noticing and starts dismantling things, and the first thing it dismantles is your ability to notice it dismantling things

i honestly think if you sit someone down to chatgpt for the first time, in many cases you literally have about 20 minutes to tackle them away from it before some amount of damage is permanent

also i think a certain class of nerd has a built-in weakness to this shit: people who think they're immune to advertising, or argued violent video games can't be bad because media isn't psychologically affecting. basically climbing into a furnace because you assume you can't be harmed

A get rich quick scheme for nerds for sure. Provides a fantasy that anything is possible which is exactly what that class of person has always desired.