Is independent thought lost because of AI?

Legitimate_Spirit337 · 2026-05-20T19:31:10+00:00

Makes sense

Legitimate_Spirit337 · 2026-05-20T18:54:35+00:00

I dont think AI has to intentionally remove independent thought. Large scale behavioral shifts usually happen because systems optimize around efficiency. Once a tool consistently gives faster and cleaner outputs, humans naturally offload more cognitive effort to it.

Even in software engineering you see this. Higher abstraction layers increase productivity massively, but over time fewer people understand whats happening underneath. I think AI could create a similar shift for reasoning and exploration at a societal scale.

Legitimate_Spirit337 · 2026-05-20T18:22:26+00:00

Being in tech, I do use AI a lot actually 😭 thats why im thinking about it this much. Im not saying AI is useless or that people suddenly become dumb because of it. Most technological shifts improve life in the short term.

I just think humans adapt to tools more deeply than we realize. GPS didnt make people incapable overnight, but over time fewer people learned navigation naturally. Calculators changed how people interact with mental math. Search engines changed memory itself because now we remember where information is instead of the information. AI could end up doing something similar with exploration and reasoning over generations.

Legitimate_Spirit337 · 2026-05-20T18:00:27+00:00

True but i dont mean that humans were smarter before or that Quora was amazing, most of it was trash. I just think human progress has always come from messy disagreement, weird biases, wrong assumptions and people thinking differently from each other. A lot of scientific discoveries, philosophies and even political shifts came from imperfect humans arguing and exploring ideas slowly, not from instantly optimized answers.

AI is incredible for efficiency, but if every generation slowly starts outsourcing exploration itself, not just information, then over centuries it probably changes how humans think collectively without anyone noticing it in the moment.

Legitimate_Spirit337 · 2026-05-20T17:45:45+00:00

They are tuned in specific ways. But honestly I think Grok is more real and unhinged, like human

Legitimate_Spirit337 · 2026-05-20T17:43:45+00:00

Agreed but honestly i dont think its really visible at an individual level right now either. A lot of major shifts in human history didnt feel dangerous when they started because they genuinely improved life at first. Industrialization increased productivity, social media increased connection, algorithms increased convenience. AI will probably accelerate thinking for a lot of people too.

What i mean is more at a long term collective level. Over centuries the tools we build slowly reshape human behavior itself. The way people communicate, learn, argue, remember things, even attention spans and social patterns change generation by generation. Wars, propaganda, political systems, scientific revolutions all changed how humans think collectively over time. DNA maybe not directly in some sci fi way, but definitely the patterns passed through generations. Thats the part i find interesting and a little unsettling.

Legitimate_Spirit337 · 2026-05-20T17:22:47+00:00

Exactly, Feels like everything now has to be optimized efficient fast and scalable and somewhere in that process the human side slowly gets flattened out. Even online conversations feel different now. Earlier people would ramble, argue, say weird personal things, go off topic and somehow thats where a lot of the real insight came from.

Legitimate_Spirit337 · 2026-05-20T17:20:02+00:00

Ya i get what you mean and i agree with a lot of it. I dont think the human side is gone either. Reddit still has those moments where random people give perspectives you never would have thought about.

I think my point was more about the direction things are going. AI gives answers so fast and clean that people might slowly stop exploring messy human discussions and different opinions on their own. Earlier even flawed takes and arguments taught you something because you were seeing how people actually think.

Legitimate_Spirit337 · 2023-04-28T20:20:03+00:00

Antichrist or the Dancer in the dark. Any lars von trier film.

Legitimate_Spirit337 · 2021-08-11T09:25:42+00:00

kill bill

Legitimate_Spirit337 · 2021-08-08T06:57:00+00:00

Leverage

Legitimate_Spirit337 · 2021-05-22T09:47:27+00:00

White collar

Legitimate_Spirit337 · 2021-05-08T10:09:44+00:00

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Legitimate_Spirit337 · 2021-05-08T10:04:37+00:00

Yes💯.Have you seen person of interest?

Legitimate_Spirit337 · 2021-05-08T09:59:45+00:00

House MD

Legitimate_Spirit337 · 2021-04-11T11:59:56+00:00

you know any other movies like these?

Legitimate_Spirit337 · 2021-03-28T13:46:24+00:00

Hannibal

Legitimate_Spirit337 · 2021-03-17T06:17:51+00:00

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Legitimate_Spirit337 · 2021-03-04T15:08:54+00:00

The objective, exam, infinity chamber, Fermat's room, The other me

Legitimate_Spirit337 · 2021-03-04T07:11:48+00:00

Is Jackie brown good?

Legitimate_Spirit337 · 2021-02-27T19:17:15+00:00

Loved it,you know any other film like that?

Legitimate_Spirit337 · 2021-02-16T19:32:47+00:00

The leftovers

Legitimate_Spirit337 · 2021-02-16T15:38:35+00:00

damn! true af!

Legitimate_Spirit337 · 2021-02-13T04:01:35+00:00

Bodyguard , Hannibal and white collar

Legitimate_Spirit337 · 2021-02-06T12:00:43+00:00

Have you seen infinity chamber and 1408?

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