AI Is Making Us Dumber – Unless We Fight Back

it does feel AI-written, sadly.

Pithy excerpt :

> The fix isn't to abandon AI. The fix is to use it differently. To use it in a way that sharpens us instead of softening us. To use it in a way that makes us think harder, not less.

maybe the fix is to _not_ use AI in your domain of expertise, or at all.

or, the fix could be to use narrowly trained AI - as Roman Jampolsky argues. Rather than train an AGI / ASI on the whole of human experience on the internet, perhaps train the models for narrow use - on narrow focused domains like microbiology / nano-materials etc

or the fix could be to make training AGI illegal - a regulated munition.

That might be a way to avoid creating a new intelligent species, which is competing with humans for compute and other resources... while making us dumber via outsourcing all our thinking in the short term.

Have been using reader view more and more .. mainly due to font readability, I like sans.

Ctrl-Alt-R in firefox

On mobile I see the blog momentarily, then the whole thing redirects to a sketchy looking url a la rm358.com, with a fulscreen video takeover. Fyi to author, I'd like to read but it's currently unusable