Christine Lemmer-Webber14h ago
Adults lose skills to AI; Children never build them. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-algorithmic-mind/202603/adults-lose-skills-to-ai-children-never-build-them
Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them.

Discussions of cognitive offloading often miss a critical distinction: What AI does to a 45-year-old's brain is categorically different from what it does to a 14-year-old's.

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Show threadAI6YR Ben

@cwebber Oooh, this quote, exactly!

"...In my view, the most likely explanation for this is not generational preference but biological development. The older group probably offloaded tasks they already knew how to perform. The younger group offloaded task they never learned how to perform. These neural pathways for source evaluation and constructing arguments were never formed. You can’t atrophy a muscle that was never built...."

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Show threadKoen Hufkens, PhD13h ago

@ai6yr @cwebber When mentoring students I often get the question - how do you figure things out so quickly.

Then I tell them that I've been messing with hardware and software since I was in my early teens - and I made tons of (innocent) mistakes.

When you get to be an adult you then know how to approach complex systems where you might not have this much margin.

Much of it is heuristics. Offloading heuristics (despite biases) is a VERY BAD IDEA.

Show threadKoen Hufkens, PhD13h ago
@ai6yr @cwebber Along the same line. I often got the question, what major should I study. I tell them, pick the hardest you can handle (if not a bit more). You will never have as much time to deal with this stuff as during college.
Show threadKoen Hufkens, PhD13h ago
@ai6yr @cwebber One of my life regrets is not studying physics, with a minor in life sciences / biology (rather than having to do it the other way around - which stinks).
Show threadFaraiwe13h ago
@koen_hufkens @ai6yr @cwebber experience: the collection of times when you went "oh, shit..." and filed it under "no, not doing that again, nope" for future reference.
Show threadAgnieszka R. Turczyńska13h ago
@koen_hufkens @ai6yr @cwebber This is the good case scenario. The bad case scenario is https://circumstances.run/@agturcz/114568845841328174
Agnieszka R. Turczyńska (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image @[email protected] Well, I do not know the full context of Mans's situation, but there is this meme, which I, as a Senior Dev, find very accurate 😅 @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]

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Show threadAI6YR Ben12h ago
@agturcz @koen_hufkens @cwebber lol
Show threadDave bauer3h ago
@koen_hufkens @ai6yr @cwebber Everything I ever did for a job was noticing patterns and applying them in new situations.