Reminder: Human cognition is complex and determining whether something is "good" or "bad" won't come from 1 or 2 studies. Point for discussion: We know that ta

Reminder: Human cognition is complex and determining whether something is "good" or "bad" won't come from 1 or 2 studies. Point for discussion: We know that task and context switching imposes substantial cognitive costs, leading to lower and slower performance for a time. I think it is may be reasonable to hypothesize that interacting with a LLM to solve tasks tends to focus the brain on a more strategic level of focus. What do I want to solve? What is my goal? Actually solving individual problems is very different. It is more concrete and mechanistic, requiring a different mode of thought. Switching from the former to the latter is a cognive task switch, where the context changes, and resetting into the new context takes time and that imposes costs. Unless they had a control arm that imposed a task switching cost...