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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

Yeah tbh I already feel like I’ve tangibly lost something with the advent of gps and cell phones. I used to be able to navigate the entire east coast with just a map and I feel like that part of my brain has atrophied

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