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Was not a IQ decline observed for the first time recently? Also, no one gets smarter by outsourcing thinking.

• echelon 6mo ago
  > Also, no one gets smarter by outsourcing thinking. Thinking is happening at a higher level. Humans are adepts at abstraction, and they are always capable of looking under the hood when needed. We've never had so much societal capability as now. And that's only going to accelerate. Smart people will use these tools effectively. Don't be so bearish on human ingenuity. Think of these tools as bullshit / busy work removers. You can focus on what matters and get more done than ever before. Deeper work, more connective work. It also opens fields of research up in an interdisciplinary fashion. People might explore outside of their limited domain now that they have help.
  • rimliu 6mo ago
    abstraction needs to be built on something. If there is little in your brain, there is little you can do with it.
    • echelon 6mo ago
      I think everyone's just citing platitudes at this point. The earth will move on. Smart people will continue to exist. I'll bet on the smart people.
      • abalashov 6mo ago
        They're not platitudes. To paraphrase my software mentor, now elderly, on LLMs: It's an impressive force multiplier, but there has to be some force to multiply.