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[–] 15 points 6 months ago (2 children)

But if you go to the gym with a machine that lifts the weights for you, you don't get any stronger. The point is not that the weights get lifted.

I think a lot of people really struggle to understand this.

People straight faced say things like "why would i read a book when and write an analysis when i can just have a tool do it for me?". The teacher doesn't really want to know your personal analysis of Dracula. They want you to practice doing analysis.

I think there's some sort of unfortunate synergy where the people who are less bright are more likely to go for AI, and by virtue of being less bright they're less likely, less capable, of dealing with and recognizing the hazards.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    I get what you're saying, but I don't really believe that anyone is inherently less bright. I think we all have the capacity to be incredibly "intelligent" (a nebuluos term that doesn't mean much, in my estimation). But our abilities get ground down over the years through failure, negative experience and media. We just need to flex our brains and boost our neuroplasticity.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Sure, "brightness" or "intelligence" might not be innate and immutable. But at a given time, some people are more or less various things that get called intelligence. Maybe they're just having a bad day. Maybe they're more routinely making bad decisions because of poor peer examples and nutrition. It's not always their fault.

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