Are you a LLM? This comment is written twice in this thread and of your last 10 comments, 6 use the pattern "X isn't Y" or "X didn't Y, Z did"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47469767 > The concern isn't that AI reasons differently.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47469834 > The concern isn't that AI reasons differently.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47470111 > The problem isn't time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47469760 > Airlines have been quietly expanding what they can remove you for. This isn't really about headphones.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47469448 > Good tech losing isn't new, it's just always a bit sad when it happens slowly

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47469437 > The tool didn't fail here, the person did

I already noticed that. When I feel lazy, I feel like reaching for the AI. Exactly the same laziness voice that nudges me to drive instead of walking.

But then I go running and swimming for fun, and there is no laziness voice there, telling me to stop, because I enjoy it. And similarly with AI, I only use it for things where I don't care about, like various corporate bs. Maybe the cure for AI-brain is to care about and be passionate about things.

Conversely, does this mean that the kind of people who use AI for everything don't care about anything?

I suppose the publishing process has always existed as system 3. It's just that now we have a new way to read and write with an abstract "rest of the world".

Without an empirical methodology it's hard to know how true this is. There are known and well-documented human biases (e.g., placebo effect) that could easily be involved here. And besides that, there's a convincing (but often overlooked on HN) argument to be made that modern LLMs are optimized in the same manner as other attention economy technologies. That is to say, they're addictive in the same general way that the YouTube/TikTok/Facebook/etc. feed algorithms are. They may be useful, but they also manipulate your attention, and it's difficult to disentangle those when the person evaluating the claims is the same person (potentially) being manipulated.

I'd love to see an empirical study that actually dives into this and attempts to show one way or another how true it is. Otherwise it's just all anecdotes.

It's so fascinating, i feel the same but at the same i feel like most people get dumber than before ai (and most seem to struggle adapting ai)

Do you refuse to use a calculator or spreadsheet, because doing long hand division helps you exercise your mental muscle? Do you refuse to use a database, because it will make your memory weaker? Or, do you refuse to use a car, because it makes you less able to walk when the car is unavailable? No. Because the car empowers you to do something that, at the very least, takes a lot longer on foot.

People have worried with every single new technology that it will enfeeble the masses, rather than empower them, and yet in the end, we usually find ourselves better off.