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People frame that like it's something we gain, efficiency, as if before we were wasting time by thinking for ourselves. I get that they can do certain things better, I'm not sure that delegating to them is free of charge. We're paying something, losing something. Probably learning and fulfillment. We become increasingly dependent on machines to do anything.

Something important happened when we turned the tables around, I don't feel it gets the credit it should. It used to be humans telling machines what to do. Now we're doing the opposite.




Yes. Use an LLM with any regularity to write code or anything else and the effect becomes perceptible. It discourages effortful thought.

Sometimes the means are just as important as the ends, if not more




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