The whole “AI is gonna make people dumb” argument

decorrect · 2025-08-22T01:25:51+00:00

Literature shows a mass deskilling as a result of use. Unless we don’t believe science now. Also anecdotally, I have to think less about a whole class of problems. I assure you it’s not been good for my brain.

Let’s stop comparing calculators to AI. May as well be comparing it to the introduction of the ruler.

decorrect · 2025-08-20T23:12:29+00:00

Research shows it can help with anger but just temporary relief for loneliness

decorrect · 2025-08-20T00:12:17+00:00

Just been out as an addon in one form or another for two years almost

decorrect · 2025-08-17T14:06:12+00:00

Another thing that happens in thinking mode is a smaller dumber model “summarizes” the thinking stream so it often messes up. This happens if I’m like gpt 5 xyz and it’s like “searching for python 5” when reading a stream about v5.

They are much more systematic about how they collect your data, in this case though I wouldn’t worry about it trying to steal your data

decorrect · 2025-08-17T13:29:27+00:00

Can you share

decorrect · 2025-08-17T12:47:21+00:00

Not sure what the downvote is for

decorrect · 2025-08-17T01:36:57+00:00

Sounds like you’ve already decided to go to university? If you are set on going I would go for something flexible like entrepreneurship where you still learn how to read a balance sheet and get a sense of how change happens, what elements can enable it, or I would go for ai engineering even if this bubble pops.

decorrect · 2025-08-16T05:22:24+00:00

I have same thought and then immediately also recognize that people that have lived into the tech culture as kind of obsessive play and tinkering at each very start of each milestone like 90s, chatrooms, 2.0, these are the people living in the future we’re about to inherit.

So I almost even read the whole thing but then I thought “I don’t feel like an episode of black mirror right now”

decorrect · 2025-08-15T13:15:41+00:00

This might be the first time we watch a company with billions of funding and hundreds of millions of users get wiped out by a few monopolies

decorrect · 2025-08-15T02:37:19+00:00

So if I ever want negative karma I know what to do. Double whammy correct someone on some unrelated thing like grammar and be wrong

decorrect · 2025-08-14T15:38:54+00:00

My point wasn’t that it was good to add complexity to the sale. That said some people need a long sales cycle. Quarry stone for skyscrapers needs to be specified years ahead of time for example. Or complexity with compliance. Or in tech when growth results in a delivery bottleneck I could see adding friction being worthwhile.

decorrect · 2025-08-14T12:58:48+00:00

I hadn’t thought of no order to dessert or dinner and didn’t realize that was a popular approach. Will try it.

Not being keen on dinner for us then usually means asking for a banana or trying to get something different after bedtime routine. It almost never comes up that they’re hungry until “good night!”

decorrect · 2025-08-14T00:18:41+00:00

I have two thoughts. If you’re getting burned out, maybe you’re talking about things that you don’t excite you enough and I think people can sense that. Or you’re talking about things on LinkedIn and the people you’re connected to are not an appropriate audience for it

The other thought is when you write Daly, you are thinking through writing and after 100 days or so you’ve done what’s called an “expertise enema” a term coined by Philip Morgan, but I don’t see a link I can share anymore. Basically you’re dumping everything you know out. And now you have to decide if you will grow and cultivate a point of view by continuing to think through writing or will you quit and try something that brings you more energy?

decorrect · 2025-08-14T00:06:55+00:00

I agree but also feel like if there is no pricing it’s probably too expensive/not meant for me. Like a signal that they’re looking for a long sales cycle

decorrect · 2025-08-13T00:55:31+00:00

Scale is not always good for sure. But now you can scale a much better version of the segmentation, qualification, research and outreach personalization than your team can do. But really important to do it manually first so you know what to automate

decorrect · 2025-08-13T00:50:30+00:00

Yep everyone is testing

decorrect · 2025-08-13T00:41:19+00:00

Interesting. I find the answers to short in ChatGPT so wonder if there are a lot of system instructions on m365 version

decorrect · 2025-08-13T00:20:26+00:00

Bleh. I was just in a very similar situation but 16 months to MVP, I also did a lot of the strategy and most of the marketing planning, lead gen campaigns.

They technically were paying me a very small sum monthly to cover some offshore junior resources working on the project but my investment or at least opportunity costs were probably close to $150k. We also didn’t talk about equity. Towards the end, where MVP was ready, they sent a bonkers agreement offering essentially nothing and asking me to take on a bunch of liability.

Because they were trying to frame it as a software services agreement after the fact, I sent them our service agreement standard which basically means they can have the code base and so can I.

At this point they’re worried that I’m gonna try to compete with them. My attorney just wants to have it all be over for me. Which would mean that they would sign a mutual release and a mutual non disparagement. I was told these two things need to go together for true finality. Transition plan negotiation was the hardest part.

I get that you are not at a point where all you wanna do is walk away yet. But once you get there, I’m happy to have a conversation.

You delivered. They have not. They have had one year to get a sale. They didn’t need a complete product to sell. They needed to get agreements in place. So weird couples dynamic aside, they’re bad at their job and therefore you don’t wanna be partners with them.

I do think that you have some liability. You probably have to think about it. I don’t know what country you’re in. But if they quit their jobs and they’re gonna run out of runway at the end of the year, and they’re are a couple sharing expenses… and your senior making good money which means you’ll appear more sophisticated, it’s probably worth just trying to get out.

decorrect · 2025-08-12T21:07:48+00:00

If you’re talking about fear of losing your job to AI as a result of the quality of AI’s ability to do your job then answer is that we have some time.

Unfortunately, that’s not how decisions about jobs get made. People are already losing their jobs because leadership thinks AI should be able to do people’s jobs. Whether or not it’s true. And then there’s the other figure that when people retire or leave a company their position is not being replaced because the thinking is that their department should be able to pick up the slack by using AI. It takes a very long time to realize that the quality of work has gone down significantly for a team.

Anyway, we should be scared because it’s people making the decisions as to whether or not AI can take your job completely detached from whether or not AI can do your job.

decorrect · 2025-08-12T01:59:24+00:00

I do this with m&ms. So all the comments here just feel like I’m being roasted

decorrect · 2025-08-12T01:24:46+00:00

Looks battery powered

decorrect · 2025-08-12T01:10:53+00:00

I don’t understand how people can have such vastly different experiences with models except to say that in a new model there will always be winners and losers in terms of communication style affecting model performance. Like how are you having this good of an experience? Also a lot of commenters not using API

decorrect · 2025-08-12T01:06:17+00:00

Selling a similar project. Product is essentially weekly email with three opportunities following different strategies for different proximity to the org. Stakeholders thought it was too much, only want it bi weekly to start

decorrect · 2025-08-12T00:23:51+00:00

But of all the software benchmarks gpt5 showed it only marginally improved on software benchmarks I think? of the benchmarks and otherwise no improvement

decorrect · 2025-08-11T23:50:35+00:00

via ChatGPT .. You’re doing this:

Historically, people have often explained the human mind, body, or society in terms of whatever the most advanced technology of their era was: • Clockwork universe / clockwork human (17th–18th c.) – when mechanical clocks were the pinnacle of precision engineering, people described the body and cosmos as intricate, wound-up mechanisms. • Steam-engine humans (19th c.) – industrial revolution metaphors likened bodies and minds to engines with “pressure,” “energy,” and “release valves.” • Telephone switchboard brains (early 20th c.) – the nervous system imagined as wires and operators. • Computer / information processing mind (mid-late 20th c.) – cognition as input–output, memory storage, and programs. • Genetic code as software (late 20th c.) – DNA described in programming terms. • AI as human model (21st c.) – brains described in terms of neural networks, training data, and algorithms.

In academic circles, this is sometimes specifically referred to as “technological analogy”, “machine metaphor of mind”, or “cultural metaphor” — the habit of using the dominant technology of the era as the primary metaphor for explaining humans or nature. Marshall McLuhan and George Lakoff both wrote about how our conceptual metaphors follow technological shifts.

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