Combining your thoughts, one could almost think that being a meat proxy works for quite a long time, before institutional inertia catches up.

Sounds like a quiet few years and then effort once demanded. So I guess... being a meat proxy does work, after all?

Work in support for most of your life and you come to the conclusion that there are a whole lot of meat proxies out there. In fact everyone does the meat proxy somewhere in their life.

> I started seeing people turn off their brain as they use LLMs

I mean, this was true for computers. "Computer says no"[0] was thing long, long before LLMs. I've had well educated, seemingly very intelligent people break when they couldn't log in steadfastly ignoring the [caps lock key is on] error message. This becomes even more "fun" and "interesting" when a person is being a meat proxy for some horrifically dangerous industrial process involving high pressures, excited chemicals, and enough rotational inertia to send god flying.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_says_no

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