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EYESORE 9001

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3. You can lead a horse's ass to AI

Reply to erronis (Original post)

Tue Mar 25, 2025, 08:47 AM

Mar 25

but you can’t make him think. It amazes me how cognitively and intellectually lazy our society has become. Those who subcontract their thinking processes to algorithms will get brain atrophy.

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AI tools may weaken critical thinking skills by encouraging cognitive offloading, study suggests [View all] erronis Mar 25 OP

K&R flying rabbit Mar 25 #1

A significant % of Americans cannot be made dumber. They have nothing cognitive to offload. /nt bucolic_frolic Mar 25 #2

You can lead a horse's ass to AI EYESORE 9001 Mar 25 #3

It's also the end of human creativity. It's the devil. Scrivener7 Mar 25 #4

Socrates warned about the dangers of reading. It would weaken our ability to memorize. Jim__ Mar 26 #5

What's scary, to me at least, is that I frequently can't remember people's phone#s. They are stored in my contacts erronis Mar 26 #6