Another Atlantic article that appears to hit.
The TLDR is if you seek higher cognition and use AI as a tool alongside that practice you’ll be fine. If you lean on AI to avoid cognition then you’ll backslide into the primordial goo as a person.
Another Atlantic article that appears to hit.
The TLDR is if you seek higher cognition and use AI as a tool alongside that practice you’ll be fine. If you lean on AI to avoid cognition then you’ll backslide into the primordial goo as a person.
Tf does “seeking higher cognition” mean. If you use AI you are an idiot. Handing your thinking over to a corporation for profit is insane behaviour, even if it did something useful. Which it doesn’t.
It means “the kind of person who enjoys learning things”, and your lack of curiosity (even in attempting to parse it) suggests you’re part of the latter group
Personally I’ve found the way to use it is to get it to do the work of processing documents I could never be bothered to process myself, and to transform large volumes of information into an indexed and cross referenced dynamic index. It does both of these things well, because that’s what language models are good at.
The end result is that I am more informed. The downside is that I spend less time going off into the weeds, which does mean picking up less esoteric information.
It’s also more mentally exhausting to have to be constantly second guessing your sources of information.
But I’ve found well prompted LLMs to be a force multiplier if used in the background to do the things you previously just didn’t bother doing at all.
I use it to manage my task list. I have Codex hooked up to Obsidian and it manages the tedious stuff that would be onerous to do by hand. Organization is by far my greatest weakness. I would be so much worse at my job if I had to spend my mental energy doing menial shit.
The smaller and more procedural the task, the better AI is at it.
How do you feel about all your personal notes being sent to OpenAI?
What personal notes? That Sathyaraj has managed to turn about 3 weeks of work into three months? That I have to remember to hound the platform team to review a change request? Or that I requested a production change so I have to remember to go to the approval board today to get it approved?
OpenAI can have all that.
It’s hilarious how badly you’ve misread this situation.
I’m in the camp of people who see pseudo intellectual bullshit bandied about all day on the internet and have since it all began.
“Seeking higher cognition” is meaningless word fluff and anyone who feels the need to advertise and ensure others are aware of their intelligence rank, which is of course ABOVE THEM.
seeking higher cognition is the type of phrase that makes my amigdyla fire and engage my primal prey response because this shit is either a cult or a scam and we’re the marks.
AI doesn’t mean anything, AI is a lot of things to a lot of people but really it’s software. Software that a lot of people have bet very very heavily on, but that doesn’t seem to really be finding a market to the scale warranted by the insane resources that have been allocated and are being used every day. The math there doesn’t work, huge amounts of land, power, water, high end computers, 247365, and you sell the world’s new MS paint.
Anyway fuck you
Ok, well if you read the article you’re so mad about you wouldn’t be so mad 🤷
I’m not mad at the article really, it’s just dumb. I’m mostly mad at the dumbass I responded to
What part of that phrase was confusing?
I mean, feel free to look up each word if you have to, there are only three of them…
There’s plenty of busy work that requires some level of “thinking” but it doesn’t add anything to whoever is doing it for the 50th time. You’re the one sounding like an idiot for ignoring this.
There is yes, AI doesn’t seem to be a solution to that.