It just makes me solve harder problems…
‘a study’
How ironic is it that you couldn’t be assed to click one link and read two paragraphs to find said study?
ya i mean a single study doesn’t mean anything, these result need to be vetted and replicated.
ITS CALLED SCIENCE
so until that happens your moronic opinions dont really matter.
stop spamming my inbox.
blocked.
lol, I hope he gets to touch some grass one day.
Yeah. People study shit like this.
Gonna ask your friend Claude how to feel about it?
wow you have anger issues.
Naw I just look down on people who would so willingly shed their agency to a fucking machine build by sociopaths.
you also make elementary assumptions and project them on strangers over the internet in a petulant manner.
Poor baby. Gonna cry that you clanker-lovers can’t fathom having to think, and do, things on your own?
Cry me a river.
Jokes on you. I never persisted at doing hard things because I had no idea what I was doing. Now I get into all sorts of shenanigans because I do what ai tells me to do.
Shenanigans.
That’s not 37 pieces of flare!
Pretty much my situation. My local AI has whipped up some compatibility enhancements for a 2006 game, and about four save editors. Right now, I got it researching The Oregon Trail 2021’s character sheets for editing.
When a Qwen4 Flash is released, I will be looking in recompiling some Windows 3.1 games.
Driving a car for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to walk to the grocery store.
funnily enough over reliance on cars CAN cause long term health issues if you really are using them for stuff like a trip to the store in the corner, along with all the increased and more fatal accidents and destruction of accesibility that comes with car dependence, so you’re literally proving the (admittedly sensationalist) headline correct
Wearing shoes for 10 minutes erodes your ability to walk to the store barefoot.
Depends if you outsource your thinking or if you use it as a tool.
This is a human problem, not an AI problem.
It is so sad that people always look for shorter means to a problem solution, I understand it is coded in our DNA to exhaust the least but over the long term it looks increasingly worrying.
There’s a flip side to this. I am persistent. But busy, and a realist. Since AI, I have been able to accomplish things I always wanted and planned to, but never got done before. I’ve been wanting a contractor’s license to expand my business. But I’m busy. AI is the tutor that helped me get it done. I’ve been loving Linux and open source, had a handful of raspberry Pi projects, but was never quite confident enough to go full on self hosted. Thanks to AI, I am fully self hosted and loving it. Also, I own a service business, time is money. Guess who has more time since AI? Define persistence in the context of my experience with AI. Put in other synonymous terms, am I faltering, yielding, “going fallow”, atrophying? I don’t think so.
Oh shut up.
Also, correlation does not equal causation. So the title is attributing AI to eroding your ability to persist, when in reality there was no prior test to ensure the individual could do the task at all. Which is almost like what they’re proving is that AI gives people the ability to do things they otherwise would not be able to do with out it.
Giving someone a tool to start and then taking the tool away mid task isn’t a good way to study the impact of the tool.
when in reality there was no prior test to ensure the individual could do the task at all
Why would such a test be needed? I presume the researchers did the reasonable thing and assigned the participants to the two groups randomly.
Ironically, the people that agree with the headline won’t bother to critically think about the study.
I used AI one time to find out what time it was in LA… now I can’t tell time
I don’t know the details of this study but it sounds like a basic result if you get people to rely on something for most of an activity and then you take it away vs those who are doing it manually, they’ve been given more progressively difficult challenges but they’ve been actually practicing and doing the work and hence internalizing it better.
It’s like those open versus closed book exams where those who actually study can do much better than those going through a book during the exam to figure it out. It’s about internalizing and practicing a material.
Not really surprising results. I guess the empirical verification is good.
Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things
Did Claude give you erectile dysfunction?
You’re offloading your thought to an LLM there is no way you don’t come out a bit dumber.
I’ve been using LLMs with a project that I simply don’t have enough time for. I’ve built the core of it during most of last year. And in the past 6 months or so I’ve been using LLMs to help me out with some of the more tedious stuff. Half the time it doesn’t quite get it right, and some of that time it’s just flat out wrong. It’s usually when I get the LLM to try to hunt down some bug or something. After a couple tries, I give up on the LLM and figure out the problem myself.
I genuinely don’t believe this “offloading your thoughts to an LLM” idea is universal. For someone still in school and learning? Probably 100% true. But for someone established in a skill, I don’t think it’s true, at least not entirely.
Using a car erodes my ability to persist at using a horse and buggy. Using a powerdrill erodes my ability persist at using a screwdriver. Using a microwave erodes my ability to eat cold food.
Speaking as someone who uses all kinds of technology, AI included, I welcome the erosion.
That’s not tr
Not doing fun Maths exercises often enough erodes my desire to do start fun Math exercises. I don’t use AI tho
