> they've always been wrong before
Were they? It seems that often the fears came true, even Socrates’
Were they? It seems that often the fears came true, even Socrates’
It hugely enhanced synthetic and contextual memory, which was a huge development.
AI has the potential to do something similar for cognition. It's not very good at it yet, but externalised cognition has the potential to be transformative in ways we can't imagine - in the same way Socrates couldn't imagine Hacker News.
Of course we identify with cognition in a way we didn't do with rote memory. But we should possibly identify more with synthetic and creative cognition - in the sense of exploring interesting problem spaces of all kinds - than with "I need code to..."
Perhaps he could. If there’s an argument to be made against writing, social media (including HN) is a valid one.
Wouldnt the endgame of externalized cognition be that humans essentially become cogs in the machine?
In fact, I can feel my memory is easily worse now than from before ChatGPT's release, because we are doing less hard cognitive work. The less we use our brain's the dumber we get, and we are definitely using our brains less now.
So we’ve externalised memory, we’ve externalised arithmetic. Personally the idea of externalising thinking seems to be the last one? It’s not clear what’s left inside us of being a human once that one is gone