Post #2824266
2026-05-22 23:51 UTC
“What should I do” and “what is 17+19” are fundamentally different questions.
What cognitive deficiency makes one a moron? This is the question.
If you believe there is nothing one could be deficient at that makes one a moron, then yes: no technology would make you a moron. You’re starting from a position where there is no prerequisite to not be a moron. It’s a tautology.
If there is a nugget… some bare minimum of performance required to not be a moron… then you must consider if a technology is driving people to that state.
I know morons.
I know they exist. I know what they lack.
I know why AI excites them. It provides a leveling mechanic that allows them to put up a facade of competence. I have no frame of reference to viscerally comprehend the excitement of being able to cosplay as a competent person. It must be the most exciting thing in the world.
For everyone else who alreadyhad two brain cells to rub together, it’s a Tuesday.
Synthesizing direction from inputs is intelligence. Deriving future inputs from observed data is a calculator. They couldn’t be more different. It’s obscene delusion to suggest they’re the same let alone similar
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@FishFace@piefed.social 2026-05-23 09:19
AI making you a moron requires not only that using AI degrades your faculties to such an extent that you become one, but that “all of us” (let’s say, the majority of people in rich countries) use it so much it has that effect. I’m sure it will have some effect on the unexpected portions of one’s brain, but still doubt the first part is true, as do I doubt the second.