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Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task (www.brainonllm.com)
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Mastodon thread summarising the study, by one of the involved scientists:

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[–] 25 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Do you use a calculator?

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Slide rule

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I usually try doing it in my head first. I use paper if it is available. I use a calculator when I don't have time, or fail at the first two steps.

    I noticed my number skills were deteriorating without proper use, and I found that alarming. I'm still weaker than I used to be, but not as bad as I was.

    It's just important to think for ones self when one can. The brain is a muscle that atrophies without use.

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  • [+] -7 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Maybe you number skills are fading because you waste your time and energy on pointless computations. Maybe they just fade with time...

    The brain is a muscle that atrophies without use.

    This is anti-scientific. But again I don't think doing multiplication problems is really going to help anything.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Your brain is weirdly unhappy with the concept of other brains doing math. Nice!

    The brainpower involved in mental math is just real-time factorization and otherwise general application of the rules of arithmatic. It's no waste, it's just a well practiced set of pathways that take annoying math and make it friendly. It takes at most 2 seconds to know if it's time to use a calculator.

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