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There's no point at which turning your brain off will work

204 points · 156 comments · robin_reala

  1. jochem9 · · focus · HN ↗
    I think a lot of people are not able to reason to this point and then adjust behaviour accordingly. They probably reason to the point when pressed for it, but cannot resist the low effort and low resistance route of asking AI, and then probably make up reasons why in their case it's fine (typical behaviour to address cognitive dissonance).

    Then again, for many people their job security doesn't depend on what work they do, it depends on how well they are embedded in the organisation. Before AI you also already had plenty of people doing their job at a questionable level, yet never seem to get fired.

    1. stephbook · · focus · HN ↗
      Combining your thoughts, one could almost think that being a meat proxy works for quite a long time, before institutional inertia catches up.

      Sounds like a quiet few years and then effort once demanded. So I guess... being a meat proxy does work, after all?

      1. pixl97 · · focus · HN ↗
        Work in support for most of your life and you come to the conclusion that there are a whole lot of meat proxies out there. In fact everyone does the meat proxy somewhere in their life.

        > I started seeing people turn off their brain as they use LLMs

        I mean, this was true for computers. "Computer says no"[0] was thing long, long before LLMs. I've had well educated, seemingly very intelligent people break when they couldn't log in steadfastly ignoring the [caps lock key is on] error message. This becomes even more "fun" and "interesting" when a person is being a meat proxy for some horrifically dangerous industrial process involving high pressures, excited chemicals, and enough rotational inertia to send god flying.

        [0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Computer_says_no" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Computer_says_no

      2. cindyllm · · focus · HN ↗

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