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	▲	mpalmer 3 days ago
		`The most positive outcome I can think of is one where computers get really good at doing, and humans get really good at thinking` Steve Yegge said on some podcast recently that AI is going to have to come up with a more visual medium for communicating, because people don't want to read several paragraphs. He shared this uncritically, seemingly without judgement or disappointment. Yegge himself is a former Googler and by all accounts was an impressive person at one point, now best known as the person who vibe-birthed the inanity that is GasTown. At work I'm seeing colleagues I once considered formidable completely turning off their brains and letting the bot drive, and wholly missing the mark on work quality. It's like a sickness, like COVID brain fog people don't even notice they have. I see humans getting worse at reading, worse at writing, and worse at programming by themselves. It makes me angry and sad. We are getting dumber, people, and I fully believe Altman and friends are lying when they say they want it otherwise.
	▲	ugtr3 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Correct. LLM’s are the virus of the mind - people think so what? I get my output and move on. Yeah.. no. You need that thinking capacity to protect yourself. Once that’s gone en-masse, what’s left of the democratic system (not much) will completely collapse. Congrats to legally creating an environment that yields oligarchy. Altman and his cronies yearn for a swath of people who cannnot think for themselves.