This is so beautifully written. Thank you. Gosh darn it that study has been so annoying in my LinkedIn feeds over the past month; AI doomsayers and nitpickers really jumping on it for clickbait value. Thanks for such a sensible take on it Tina.
The study was so annoying not because of what it did or what it showed, that was common sense. It was annoying for how many people misinterpreted the results.
Fantastic work! We are very much of the same mind on this, so thank you for your voice! Please forgive my sharing my work on your comments page, but my last piece was so closely in line with what you've said here about the sensationalist views behind AI damaging critical thinking etc., I feel compelled to share, only to further support what you're saying. Keep it up!
Thanks, Ben! I’m really glad Nick invited me to do this, just started my own Substack, One Marginally Useful Thing, and I’m still figuring it all out everything here and I followed you!
I also run a weekly series on LinkedIn called Too Much Hype Tuesday, so excited to connect!
Thanks for sharing this. It all depends on how we approach AI.
If we approach it with reflection, we get better brain, not a rooted one. I developed my Reflective Prompting framework just for this, working with AI safely and unlocking your true potential
You should use AI to learn about strawman fallacies. Nobody using the term 'brain rot' was actually asserting some of permanent brain damage. Brain rot is colloquial--another cool conversation you could have with the AI. Past that, there is also something to consider with respect to 'our collective brain'. If hordes of college kids are using chatGPT to cheat---and they are--then the promise of academia as currently constituted doesn't exactly move the ball forward.
The opportunity cost associated with cognitive debt--ie filling study/learning time with tiktok, and doing so for years--does in fact equal Brain Rot. [And spare me the notion that the kids offloading to chatGPT are doing so to make a more efficient use of brain power. Hilarious!]
https://onemarginallyusefulthing.substack.com/p/starting-one-marginally-useful-thing
This is so beautifully written. Thank you. Gosh darn it that study has been so annoying in my LinkedIn feeds over the past month; AI doomsayers and nitpickers really jumping on it for clickbait value. Thanks for such a sensible take on it Tina.
The study was so annoying not because of what it did or what it showed, that was common sense. It was annoying for how many people misinterpreted the results.
Fantastic work! We are very much of the same mind on this, so thank you for your voice! Please forgive my sharing my work on your comments page, but my last piece was so closely in line with what you've said here about the sensationalist views behind AI damaging critical thinking etc., I feel compelled to share, only to further support what you're saying. Keep it up!
https://sharedsapience.substack.com/p/misapplied-measurements-and-mirror
Thanks, Ben! I’m really glad Nick invited me to do this, just started my own Substack, One Marginally Useful Thing, and I’m still figuring it all out everything here and I followed you!
I also run a weekly series on LinkedIn called Too Much Hype Tuesday, so excited to connect!
Thanks for sharing this. It all depends on how we approach AI.
If we approach it with reflection, we get better brain, not a rooted one. I developed my Reflective Prompting framework just for this, working with AI safely and unlocking your true potential
You should use AI to learn about strawman fallacies. Nobody using the term 'brain rot' was actually asserting some of permanent brain damage. Brain rot is colloquial--another cool conversation you could have with the AI. Past that, there is also something to consider with respect to 'our collective brain'. If hordes of college kids are using chatGPT to cheat---and they are--then the promise of academia as currently constituted doesn't exactly move the ball forward.
The opportunity cost associated with cognitive debt--ie filling study/learning time with tiktok, and doing so for years--does in fact equal Brain Rot. [And spare me the notion that the kids offloading to chatGPT are doing so to make a more efficient use of brain power. Hilarious!]