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eviks 5 days ago

No, vibe science is not as powerful as to be able to determine "long-term cognitive harm", especially when such "technical wonders" as "measurable through EEG brain scans." are used.

> 83.3% of LLM users were unable to quote even one sentence from the essay they had just written

Not sure why you need to wire EEG up, it's pretty obvious that they simply did _not_ write the essay, LLM did it for them, and likely didn't even read it, so there is no surprise that they don't remember what didn't pass through their own thinking apparatus properly.

matwood 5 days ago | parent [-]

I write all the time and couldn't quote anything off hand. What I can talk about are the ideas in the writing. I find LLMs useful as an editor. Here's what I want to say, is it clear or are there better words, etc... And then I never take the output blindly, and depending on how important the writing is I may go back and forth line by line.

The idea that I would say 'write an essay on X' and then never look at the output is kind of wild. I guess that's vibe writing instead of vibe coding.