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Productivity junkies need to remind themselves that their goals aren't necessarily useful or practical goals. The mind is working exactly how it should: there

Productivity junkies need to remind themselves that their goals aren't necessarily useful or practical goals. The mind is working exactly how it should: there is no practical need to remember everything you've read or seen (it has been like this ever since Google Search existed and since 2008 even more so with the ability to google the entire world from your pocket). The mind does a great job at filtering all the noise already and ensures you only remember the most important stuff.

corbulo 4y ago
The mind is also highly plastic. Its like clay, the more its worked the more dynamic it can be. If it is never worked then it will be very hard to bring the heat back in to make it dynamic again. People who rely on ChatGPT or any LLM will be outsourcing their mind in a detrimental way. A calculator allows you to build up to bigger ideas. An LLM in the usecase being described is a replacement for critical thought, not an enhancer of it so the user can think bigger. Laborious tasks can frequently be useful if theyre the right ones. To fully use an LLM as a copilot (sending texts, writing letters, important emails, generate business ideas) is to outsource your own mind. The territory still left for machine to conquer is our own consciousness that is a product of simultaneous multi-sensory input. We can feel a table, see a plane, smell the air, hear music, experience time. These build into understanding the consequences of our actions in a more complex way than an LLM can understand. An LLM is still simply a 1-1.5D being.