Predictions on they type of people the AI age will produce

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.

I started backsliding into a primordial goo person almost 15 years ago tyvm

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 understand that this is anecdotal, but the schoolteachers I know all tell similar stories.

Most kids can't read up to their grade level and can't focus for more than 60 seconds. They're unable to tell you the answer to a question when it's literally written on the board in front of them, and a common question they ask is: "If AI can do this for me, why do I have to learn it at all?"

Which tells me that the AI age will produce lazy people who are unable to think for themselves or solve simple problems. Then again, maybe BCI's will become common and they literally won't have to actually think for themselves.

It's gonna be so great getting old with them running the world.

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

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.

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.

Ok, well if you read the article you’re so mad about you wouldn’t be so mad 🤷

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I was pretty good at maths in school, and throughout my adult life there have been times when doing mental math has been helpful.

I must've saved quite a few minutes, perhaps even an hour total.

But it has never been that important, that using the calculator I always have in my pocket would've somehow changed anything in the moment.

In all, it actually doesn't feel like that helpful of a skill, though your milage will vary depending on your job.

In saying that, LLM's aren't going anywhere, and the panic around peoples stupification is probably a mask for ignorance or indifference which would exist regardless.

Before it was cool!

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...

It's gonna be so great getting old with them running the world.

Based on the current situation, why do you think they will run anything? From the currently available data, the oldest fucks (then, we) will run the show until they (we) fall over dead (and sometimes beyond, looking at _Moscow Mitch_).