Protect Your Consciousness From AI

I saw the danger of it as a form of learned helplessness down the line and swore off using LLM's for that reason, that and I feel no need to delegate my thinking to a machine that can't think and I like thinking.

Same reason snacks are upstairs in the kitchen and not in my office on the ground floor - I'm too lazy and if they are easily available I'll eat them.

When you see that, call them out on it. Not understanding copy+pasted code is one thing, but not testing it is a whole other level of garbage.

The same objections apply to the written word. A culture that succeeded in not succumbing to writing and reading may indeed have been better off in the short term, depending on the quality of the memes. But it would have been at a competitive disadvantage to cultures that were permissive with knowledge transfer.

The main advantage of AI so far has been as a distiller of the knowledge embedded in the written word. It's another leap in knowledge transfer. That's still a competitive advantage to any culture that doesn't abjure it. This particular consciousness intends to leverage the opportunity.

It’s embarrassing. Don’t rely on AI, guys. Have pride in yourselves.

We're too lazy and too obsessed with getting ahead to use this technology responsibly in my opinion.

On the negative side: The LLM uses fancy language to try to convince disinfo. The danger is that you do not see this disinfo and it will shape your consciousness that is the trap.

However if you are lucky you learn to distrust the LLMs it's not a educated AI.

On the positive side: You can still use it as search engine or to get some ideas But you should continue on your own to increase your creative skills.

Your consciousness / attention is stolen on a daily basis to keep you occupied to do stuff. However this is already ongoing before LLMs, before the computer age.

I think at some point your consciousness will detect this brain rot at some point and evolve beyond.

Our body's has evolved to copy trait from others from childhood on, moreover it's also in our DNA itself its created to copy. So the LLM is not any different but you should be aware which trait to copy.

Either case is weird in absolute terms but in relative terms, it all goes to the same place. The human-like nature of AI seems to make people realize this more.

Don’t be lazy and stupid.

You can go back and read McLuhan, he's great, but a recent and more approachable book on this is _God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning_.

Way back in 1969 the utopian vision of technology put humans at the centre. The Whole Earth Catalogue's slogan was “access to tools.” Just _tools_. That same year, technology put a man on the moon.

Unfortunately, if you realize the extent and the history of the problem, you see we're so far gone, miles away from getting a grip.