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AI Is Making Us Dumber – Unless We Fight Back

https://baromae.blogspot.com/2026/10/can-ai-really-make-us-smarter-what_01666148514.html
9•odilelof•41m ago

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polalavik•29m ago
warning - not really chill ads for work pop up on this blog
jgord•27m ago
Have been using reader view more and more .. mainly due to font readability, I like sans.

Ctrl-Alt-R in firefox

evnp•25m ago
On mobile I see the blog momentarily, then the whole thing redirects to a sketchy looking url a la rm358.com, with a fulscreen video takeover. Fyi to author, I'd like to read but it's currently unusable
jgord•18m ago
that might be a good thing, on balance.
iugtmkbdfil834•28m ago
It is fascinating how much of that blog post was clearly written by AI.
jgord•26m ago
it does feel AI-written, sadly.
jgord•25m ago
Raises a good point .. in, oh, such a bad way.
jgord•19m ago
Pithy excerpt :

> The fix isn't to abandon AI. The fix is to use it differently. To use it in a way that sharpens us instead of softening us. To use it in a way that makes us think harder, not less.

maybe the fix is to _not_ use AI in your domain of expertise, or at all.

or, the fix could be to use narrowly trained AI - as Roman Jampolsky argues. Rather than train an AGI / ASI on the whole of human experience on the internet, perhaps train the models for narrow use - on narrow focused domains like microbiology / nano-materials etc

or the fix could be to make training AGI illegal - a regulated munition.

That might be a way to avoid creating a new intelligent species, which is competing with humans for compute and other resources... while making us dumber via outsourcing all our thinking in the short term.

odilelof•15m ago
Yes, I completely agree, but there's one thing…
odilelof•17m ago
Please enable AdBlock for the ads; the source is at the end of the article, and it helped me structure my text, so yes and no—P.S., it's all here.
odilelof•14m ago
La source de mon article de réaction est greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/want_to_use_ai_to_improve_your_work_have_it_disagree_withyou

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