I keep telling people that AI will atrophy their brain the same way that tools like Google Maps did. We can’t navigate for shit now unless a piece of software tells us the route. The same thing is going to happen, but to really important judgment and thinking skills.
some of us were born without navigation, just as some of us were born with arithmetic-defect, or dyslexia, or face-blindness, or whatever.
We are locked-out without such help.
There is a balance between using help you actually-need, vs indulging-in-having-one’s-capability-displaced-by-help.
THAT is the thing that is making AI into the lethal-recreational-drug that it’s turning into.
People using it to substitute for reality, instead of using it for brainstorming & intelligently-condensing, or for editing-critique, etc.
If I ever get my not-for-profit started-up ( health problems come 1st ), then at this point I expect to have to fire about 19/20 of the people I hire, just because “if YOU sign-off on it, then YOU wrote it” … just “does not compute”, anymore, in this fake-fake-fake everything world.
When I found out that some people have a defect in their language-brain such that they CANNOT get spelling to work in English ( because their spelling is always auditory, & English is engineered to make that not-work ) … & then I found out that dyslexia is MUCH worse in English than it is in Italian, same root-problem … then I began understanding that English is engineered to lock-out many people, & I’d been blind to that…
just providing alternative-context, is all.
It’s the same as the “in the old days, the tough survived, & that was the right way” … yeah, except that accepting such a stupidly-high needless-death-rate to produce those few “successes” … was sociopathic, by today’s standards.
shows why broken-necks were so common in playgrounds, back in the early-photography days…
Nowadays children are DRASTICALLY more-likely to reach adulthood, & I think that’s a good thing … so the “weeding out” isn’t quite so heavy-handed, now.
All disabilities, though, can be rigged into a weeding-out.
The shorter-lifespan of left-handed people ( enforced stress ) is but 1 example of systemic-bias’s effects…
& I’m saying that over-relying on AI will, itself, produce a reduction-in-viability.
The “easy money: getting without giving” culture’s narcissism … isn’t going anywhere!
I’ve restored my navigation skills by playing through the Dark Souls trilogy. No map, no objective markers, just you and the slightly janky third person camera.
Damn, you just clicked for me why I have a pretty good sense of direction. I’ve occasionally impressed myself and others for years, with “do you not know how we got here?” or “well we came from that direction” in spite of a generally terrible memory and a passionate dislike of geography and learning street names, etc.
But you’re absolutely right, it’s video games: puzzle dungeons, huge open worlds, metroidvanias, I even prefer playing with the UI and maps off whenever possible, and somehow I’ve never made this connection before. Incredible.
This worked for me too but I still have trouble navigating landmarks that aren’t flaming wolfmen nailed to a cross, or colossal castles by the sea guarded by a dragon skeleton
2023 is when I first got a vehicle with a nav display, and that definitely dulled the more detailed navigation senses.
Cardinal directions still solid but the take a left on Y after X street info I had been cataloging in the back of my mind fell off quickly once I started turn by turn directions all the time.
I keep telling people that AI will atrophy their brain the same way that tools like Google Maps did. We can’t navigate for shit now unless a piece of software tells us the route. The same thing is going to happen, but to really important judgment and thinking skills.
some of us were born without navigation, just as some of us were born with arithmetic-defect, or dyslexia, or face-blindness, or whatever.
We are locked-out without such help.
There is a balance between using help you actually-need, vs indulging-in-having-one’s-capability-displaced-by-help.
THAT is the thing that is making AI into the lethal-recreational-drug that it’s turning into.
People using it to substitute for reality, instead of using it for brainstorming & intelligently-condensing, or for editing-critique, etc.
If I ever get my not-for-profit started-up ( health problems come 1st ), then at this point I expect to have to fire about 19/20 of the people I hire, just because “if YOU sign-off on it, then YOU wrote it” … just “does not compute”, anymore, in this fake-fake-fake everything world.
When I found out that some people have a defect in their language-brain such that they CANNOT get spelling to work in English ( because their spelling is always auditory, & English is engineered to make that not-work ) … & then I found out that dyslexia is MUCH worse in English than it is in Italian, same root-problem … then I began understanding that English is engineered to lock-out many people, & I’d been blind to that…
just providing alternative-context, is all.
It’s the same as the “in the old days, the tough survived, & that was the right way” … yeah, except that accepting such a stupidly-high needless-death-rate to produce those few “successes” … was sociopathic, by today’s standards.
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=fpas&q=1800's+playground&ia=images&iax=images
shows why broken-necks were so common in playgrounds, back in the early-photography days…
Nowadays children are DRASTICALLY more-likely to reach adulthood, & I think that’s a good thing … so the “weeding out” isn’t quite so heavy-handed, now.
All disabilities, though, can be rigged into a weeding-out.
The shorter-lifespan of left-handed people ( enforced stress ) is but 1 example of systemic-bias’s effects…
& I’m saying that over-relying on AI will, itself, produce a reduction-in-viability.
The “easy money: getting without giving” culture’s narcissism … isn’t going anywhere!
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I’ve restored my navigation skills by playing through the Dark Souls trilogy. No map, no objective markers, just you and the slightly janky third person camera.
Damn, you just clicked for me why I have a pretty good sense of direction. I’ve occasionally impressed myself and others for years, with “do you not know how we got here?” or “well we came from that direction” in spite of a generally terrible memory and a passionate dislike of geography and learning street names, etc.
But you’re absolutely right, it’s video games: puzzle dungeons, huge open worlds, metroidvanias, I even prefer playing with the UI and maps off whenever possible, and somehow I’ve never made this connection before. Incredible.
As someone with nearly 500 hours into Elden Ring, this tracks lol.
This worked for me too but I still have trouble navigating landmarks that aren’t flaming wolfmen nailed to a cross, or colossal castles by the sea guarded by a dragon skeleton
I stopped using navigation for the most part. Mind you, I grew up using maps but it only took a couple months for my navigation skills to cone back.
2023 is when I first got a vehicle with a nav display, and that definitely dulled the more detailed navigation senses.
Cardinal directions still solid but the take a left on Y after X street info I had been cataloging in the back of my mind fell off quickly once I started turn by turn directions all the time.