I have a coworker like that too, my pet theory is that they're not passionate about their job to begin with. It's just something that can pay their bills.

While waiting for Claude to finish, we talked about our hobbies outside of work, and the same guy will go into deep details on how steroids and the HPG axis works, and even gave me a spreadsheet with several NCBI PubMed links on the topic.

I think we are all naturally be more creative and opinionated in things we are interested in.

We don't think - sounds like the same crowd as the people who think creativity doesn't exist.

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People are worse at mental arithmetic than they were in the recent past, so it's not clear that they aren't "dumber" in the sense people meant at the time.

Students score lower on standardized tests in the 2020s than those in the 1990s. So your stance feels misguided. Although I don’t think Google and Calculators are the main culprits, I do think it’s due to larger technology/internet landscape.

I once worked for a guy who typed 7 + 4 into a calculator, after freezing for 1.5 secs trying to work it out in his head. It was in a "stressful" situation (not something extreme, we just were in a hurry), and I'm sure the guy could add those numbers in his head, generally... he owns his own business, after all. It took so much out of me to not move a face muscle.

Sounds like you haven't used it much. It starts small with you forgetting the arcane params to commonly used tools that you don't need to type anymore. Where it will stop nobody knows.

it clearly did make "people" dumber because now "people" believe in AI ;)

But...

Take electricity adoption for example, with your adage then it means unreasonable pro-electricity people vs unreasonable anti-electricity people. We know how this turns out, I don't see a lot of people joining the Amish.

It's okay to have strong opinions (be "unreasonable"), but in the end humanity as a whole (the "reasonable" people) will judge whether your opinion is a good one or not. Only time will tell.

> up to and including a bifurcation of the internet.

Enforced how?

Well I'm not saying that the blog writer shouldn't have written the article.

I've read the article and to me it reads like a very angry rant, which is why I commented with something akin to "bro calm down"

Thanks for the warm wishes, stranger

I see no point in denying the technology, it's best to do what we humans do best: adapt with it.

I don't think balancing AI use with creativity and thought is a matter of IQ. It comes down to how you use the tool.

You don't need super big brain IQ to be creative and expressive, all you need is simply a strong opinion on something, and you don't let AI (or other people) dictate otherwise.

Now the skill issue lies in whether your opinion is a good idea or not lol.