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Re: Claude Code Opus 4.7 keeps checking on malware

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AI killed curiosity. At least Google made you search and look at alternatives, AI just gives you solutions, whether right or wrong. In a few years, the cognitive decline will be obvious. The only people who remain curious are the people who actively want to, despite AI, and most of the time against it. Our ability to keep digging into things is entirely tied to the will of the people controlling AI to let us do so. K…

AI enables curious people to explore. Why do you say it kills curiosity? If anything, it's so recognizable with output I'd say it kills creativity.

Re: Claude Code Opus 4.7 keeps checking on malware

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Lucky you. My new claude max account simply got instabanned. All I asked it was to build node and V8 "to investigate some node crashes" (the part I think it overindexed on) and look into a few diffs. And bam, "An internal investigation of suspicious signals associated with your account indicates a violation of our Usage Policy. As a result, we have revoked your access to Claude"

They are even worse than Google, which at least doesn't ban your whole account if you search the wrong thing.

Re: Claude Code Opus 4.7 keeps checking on malware

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post #10

AI killed curiosity. At least Google made you search and look at alternatives, AI just gives you solutions, whether right or wrong. In a few years, the cognitive decline will be obvious. The only people who remain curious are the people who actively want to, despite AI, and most of the time against it. Our ability to keep digging into things is entirely tied to the will of the people controlling AI to let us do so. K…

AI enables curious people to explore. Why do you say it kills curiosity? If anything, it's so recognizable with output I'd say it kills creativity.

It enables people to solve, not explore. It's a solution engine not a curiosity engine. Getting effortless answers at every turn is the opposite of curiosity.

Re: Claude Code Opus 4.7 keeps checking on malware

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post #13

Lucky you. My new claude max account simply got instabanned. All I asked it was to build node and V8 "to investigate some node crashes" (the part I think it overindexed on) and look into a few diffs. And bam, "An internal investigation of suspicious signals associated with your account indicates a violation of our Usage Policy. As a result, we have revoked your access to Claude" They are even worse than Google, which…

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Re: Claude Code Opus 4.7 keeps checking on malware

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I am on the latest version available for me 2.1.98

Version 2.1.113 is available as of this comment. I think the brew version lags behind the other ways of installing it.

I am not using brew. Just checked and it still says 2.1.98. Will try manual update.

Re: Claude Code Opus 4.7 keeps checking on malware

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post #14

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AI enables curious people to explore. Why do you say it kills curiosity? If anything, it's so recognizable with output I'd say it kills creativity.

It enables people to solve , not explore. It's a solution engine not a curiosity engine. Getting effortless answers at every turn is the opposite of curiosity.

It gets me past the non-productive barriers and allows me to explore problems and scenarios I could never have done before due to impossible to justify time cost for myself and expense for my clients.

Re: Claude Code Opus 4.7 keeps checking on malware

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post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AI enables curious people to explore. Why do you say it kills curiosity? If anything, it's so recognizable with output I'd say it kills creativity.

It enables people to solve , not explore. It's a solution engine not a curiosity engine. Getting effortless answers at every turn is the opposite of curiosity.

A couple of weeks ago I was interested in how people have interpreted the Tower of Babel narrative over time, so I used Claude to do a bunch of research to identify interpretations over time and look for historical trends. I don't think it "solved" anything, and it all felt more curiosity-driven. It led to a bunch of in-person conversations and followup questions.

So I guess I'd say it's more about how you're using the tool and what kinds of problems you're looking to solve with it. A calculator can be dinged for getting effortless answers at every turn or it can be praised for enabling a higher volume of solved math problems and enabling more complex work for a broader set of people.

Re: Claude Code Opus 4.7 keeps checking on malware

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post #10

AI killed curiosity. At least Google made you search and look at alternatives, AI just gives you solutions, whether right or wrong. In a few years, the cognitive decline will be obvious. The only people who remain curious are the people who actively want to, despite AI, and most of the time against it. Our ability to keep digging into things is entirely tied to the will of the people controlling AI to let us do so. K…

Google killed curiosity. At least libraries made you search and read alternatives. Google just gives you solutions, whether right or wrong.

Re: Claude Code Opus 4.7 keeps checking on malware

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post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AI enables curious people to explore. Why do you say it kills curiosity? If anything, it's so recognizable with output I'd say it kills creativity.

It enables people to solve , not explore. It's a solution engine not a curiosity engine. Getting effortless answers at every turn is the opposite of curiosity.

It can enable people to go directly to solutions, but it also enables alternative paths. AI may not be nurturing creativity where it is not present but it doesn't seem to be responsible for people's disinterest in anything beyond their immediate need.

The real problem is that most people either don't see the value in or don't have the time to indulge in their curiosity. Even the language we use, indulgence to describe scratching that itch. How funny. Because curiosity is a luxury.

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