Hacker NewsSitting for a long time shrinks your brain even if you exercise
https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/alz.70157
#HackerNews #SittingHealth #BrainShrinkage #ExerciseResearch #HealthScience #AgingEffects
N-gated Hacker News🤖 Oh no, Vincent's intelligence is under siege! Turns out using #LLMs is the shortcut to brain shrinkage—why bother with pesky skills like JavaScript and math when you can just ClaudeCode your way into mediocrity? 🧠💤 Clearly, the future of intellect is wrapped in a cozy blanket of LLM-induced laziness! 🚀📉
https://vvvincent.me/llms-are-making-me-dumber/ #BrainShrinkage #Mediocrity #FutureOfIntellect #TechTrends #HackerNews #ngated
https://vvvincent.me/llms-are-making-me-dumber/ #BrainShrinkage #Mediocrity #FutureOfIntellect #TechTrends #HackerNews #ngated
LLMs are Making Me Dumber
Here are some ways I use LLMs that I think are making me dumber: When I want to build a Chrome extension for personal use, instead of actually learning and writing the JavaScript, I Claude-Code the whole thing in a couple of hours without writing a single line of code. Instead of taking the usual route which would leave me with more actual familiarity with JavaScript, I now shortcut the process, leaving me with barely any JS knowledge despite numerous functioning applications. When I need math homework done fast, I feed in the relevant textbook pages in context, dump my problems into o3/Gemini, and check its answers for sanity instead of doing the problems myself. I cram before tests. (Yes, this is morally dubious and terrible for learning.) When I need to write an email, I often bullet-point what I want to write and ask the LLM to write out a coherent, cordial email. I’ve gotten worse at writing emails. My first response to most problems is to ask an LLM, and this might atrophy my ability to come up with better solutions since my starting point is already in the LLM-solution space. These are all deliberate trade-offs I make for the sake of output speed. By sacrificing depth in my learning, I can produce substantially more work. I’m unsure if I’m at the correct balance between output quantity and depth of learning. This uncertainty is mainly fueled by a sense of urgency due to rapidly improving AI models. I don’t have time to learn everything deeply. I love learning, but given current trends, I want to maximize immediate output. I’m sacrificing some learning in classes for more time doing outside work. From a teacher’s perspective, this is obviously bad, but from my subjective standpoint, it’s unclear.
AI6YR Ben"Their horizons and orientation, like their hippocampi, are shrinking with the collusion of online providers. In four generations children have gone from roaming up to six miles from home to an average of just 300 yards. Even before Covid, surveys found that three-quarters of children spent less time outdoors than prison inmates. " #smartphones #brainshrinkage
Guardian: Lost your sense of direction? Turn off your phone and you’ll soon reconnect https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/nov/17/lost-your-sense-of-direction-turn-off-your-phone-and-youll-soon-reconnect #brain #shrinkage #brainshrinkage #smartphones
AutisticMumTo3CW: Paywall. New Scientist
Why did humans evolve big brains? A new idea bodes ill for our future | New Scientist
#Brain
#BrainSize
#HominidBrains
#HumanBrains
#BigBrains
#BrainShrinkage
#Paleontology
#Archeology
#ModernHumans
#Evolution
Poetry NewsSmoking
Shrinks brains, slows thought
Cessation helps, though not reversed
Dementia, Alzheimer's
Risk increases
#smoking #brainshrinkage #dementia #alzheimers #cessation #cinquain #poetry
Smoking causes brain shrinkage, but quitting may prevent further loss
Cigarette smoking causes brain shrinkage, according to a new study. Loss in brain volume also raises the risk of cognitive decline, dementia, and Alzheimer’s. Smoking cessation can help stop brain shrinkage, but it cannot be reversed.
Steve Dustcircle 🌹#Genitalherpes linked to accelerated #brainshrinkage
