Ancestors

Written by blakestacey@awful.systems on 2025-01-20 at 05:26

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th January 2025 - awful.systems - awful.systems

https://awful.systems/post/3329759

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Toot

Written by blakestacey@awful.systems on 2025-01-25 at 02:04

From the “flipping through LessWrong for entertainment” department:

What effect does LLM use have on the quality of people’s thinking / knowledge?

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Descendants

Written by skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de on 2025-01-25 at 04:31

The findings revealed a significant negative correlation between frequent AI tool usage and critical thinking abilities, mediated by increased cognitive offloading

i think it was posted somewhere in techtakes www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15/1/6

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Written by froztbyte@awful.systems on 2025-01-25 at 07:03

yeah, I posted in previous stubsack I think

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Written by swlabr@awful.systems on 2025-01-25 at 05:16

You’d think the AI safety chuds would have more reservations about using GPT, which they believe has sapience, to learn things. They have the concept of an AI being a good convincer, which, hey, idiots, how have none of you thought the great convincing has started? Also, how have none of you realised that maybe you should be a little harder to convince in general???

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Written by YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems on 2025-01-25 at 06:22

It is a long-established truth that it’s significantly easier to con someone who thinks they’re smarter than you. Also as I think about it a little bit there seems to be a reasonable corollary of their approach towards Bayesian thinking that you not question anything that matches your expectations, which is exactly how you get taken advantage of by the kind of grifter they’re attached to. Like, they’ve been thinking about the singularity for long enough that the Sams (bankman-fried, Altman, etc) have a well-developed script for what they expect the first stages to look like and it is, as demonstrated, very easy to fake that.

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