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1. OutOfHere · 1790084886 · focus · HN ↗

   This is another nonsensical AI-hate article. HN has a cluster of users motivated to posting AI-hate. AI is a general-purpose tool; you can trivially use it for learning or for evading learning.

   Consider for example something as familiar as coffee. It can stimulate you, but if you chronically over-consume it, it will inevitably ruin your sleep and make you more fatigued. This doesn't make coffee antithetical to energy.

   A fairer title to an article would be "AI reshapes learning", but people prefer making bombastic, clickbait, and false claims instead.

   1. xgulfie · 1790085464 · focus · HN ↗

      a handgun is a tool you can trivially use to trim your trees or to shoot someone it doesn't mean it's meant for killing

      1. OutOfHere · 1790085708 · focus · HN ↗

         That's a blatantly false pseudo-analogy. Your claim about a handgun itself is bogus.

         A gun is not a multi-purpose tool; it is a weapon. AI is a general-purpose tool, and not a weapon.

         1. happytoexplain · 1790085802 · focus · HN ↗

            That's the point. A gun is also "just a tool". It's a lazy argument.

            Edit: This was written in response to an earlier version of the parent post.

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