AI-assisted cognition endangers human development?

Post by tadfisher » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 7:51 PM UTC

gallerdude wrote: post #41

palmotea wrote: post #25

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Oh no, not that tired thing again. I suppose your point is: people once were critical of the technology of writing, so all criticism of the technology-at-hand is illegitimate. You don't actually make a point, so one has to assume. Some points: 1. Technological inventions are not repetitions of the same phenomenon. Each invention is its own unique event, you cannot generalize the experience with previous inventions to…

1. You can't understand the nuances, but there is a general pattern: new inventions may make us slightly less proficient at specifics, yet more powerful overall 2. Imagine a hunter gatherer is time travelled to 2026. You have lunch go to a cafe with him, and he learns that food is cheap, delicious, and abundant. He sees your house, and thinks it's amazing compared to his cave. He thinks that 2026 must be absolute par…

Post by thwarted » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 7:52 PM UTC

cortesoft wrote: post #75

thwarted wrote: post #52

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The issue here is that the sister could have used ChatGPT herself, so why bother hiring the plumber. The plumber has provided less value than was expected. But make no mistake: the value the sister was looking for was to have someone else deal with it, and there's a price that the sister was willing to pay for the service of having someone else deal with it. In the comments of this HN post, there is a dead comment fr…

This is assuming that ChatGPT had everything needed to do the work. If the plumber was asking specific questions, based on their previous experience and knowledge about what needed to be done, the sister might not have been able to get the same result from her use of ChatGPT that the plumber received. Experts look things up all the time, because no one can hold all the knowledge of a field in their head. Being an exp…

Post by xg15 » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 7:53 PM UTC

alwa wrote: post #17

zozbot234 wrote: post #12

At the Egyptian city of Naucratis, there was a famous old god, whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis is sacred to him, and he was the inventor of many arts, such as arithmetic and calculation and geometry and astronomy and draughts and dice, but his great discovery was the use of letters. Now in those days the god Thamus was the king of the whole country of Egypt; and he dwelt in that great city of…

(From Socrates’ dialog with Phaedrus) https://classics.mit.edu/Plato/phaedrus.html#:~:text=there%2...

Post by blackqueeriroh » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 7:54 PM UTC

Post by djrorkrmrk » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 7:55 PM UTC

Manuel_D wrote: post #88

> In early 2026, the USA prepared to invade Greenland and, therefore, the EU4. Only a few months prior to that it was completely unthinkable that the USA would even think about threatening an invasion of Greenland. As AI base models are stuck in the past, they do not easily accept these events as real and often label them as “hypothetical”, “fake news”, or “impossible”. This also affects new models like Gemini 3 Pro,…