When Claude doesn’t give me the answer I want, I go to ChatGPT and whine about it. If I still don’t like that answer, I ask Gemini. I call it the triangle of sycophancy.
And if Gemini doesn't help, you can always betray your motherland and turn to DeepSeek, Kimi, Qwen, and GLM. And if they are no use...I guess there's always Grok and Meta, technically, if you're really desperate.
I get your point, although I'm not sure I'm quite as cynical about the state of affairs. Yet there's a degree of self-selection here: The people who will want to read a "How to avoid cognitive surrender" take are precisely the people best positioned to apply it. The rest wouldn't bother to do either, by definition.
Well, comment sections of social media sites have never been particularly nuanced, but by the same token, they are not exactly the best representations of the population as a whole.
We very much see eye to eye on this! I've been framing it in my own mind as "cognitive atrophy", but it results from surrender, so this term is even more apt.
In essence, if it's a task I never, ever want to do again (like sorting rows for a spreadsheet or something really tedious), I want AI to do that every time. I'll even complain when it doesn't do it! That's a whole category of "hell yes, here are my keys, drive me everywhere you sexy thinker, you."
Another category is stuff that's deeply personal, where I just don't want to share any of that w/AI, so that's kind of at the other end.
Everything in between gets potentially messy. AI slop is real, and you have to be the human in the loop as a creator regularly. I may write something soon on this - "Cognitive Opportunity Costs", I think - mind if I use a couple quotes here? I like being lazy! Er, I mean, supporting my friends.
Why would you use my quotes if you can get ChatGPT to use my quotes for you?! You're so lazy at being lazy, dude.
And yeah, division of labor: Fun + meaningful stuff for us, everything else for AI. But what you consider fun and meaningful will definitely vary. Because, humans, are, like, different and stuff? (Claude, how do I phrase this?)
When Claude doesn’t give me the answer I want, I go to ChatGPT and whine about it. If I still don’t like that answer, I ask Gemini. I call it the triangle of sycophancy.
And if Gemini doesn't help, you can always betray your motherland and turn to DeepSeek, Kimi, Qwen, and GLM. And if they are no use...I guess there's always Grok and Meta, technically, if you're really desperate.
Your recipe only works for the percentage of the population with suitable intelligence to do their own thinking. It's a rapidly declining percentage!
"...think about how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half of 'em are stupider than that."
--George Carlin
I get your point, although I'm not sure I'm quite as cynical about the state of affairs. Yet there's a degree of self-selection here: The people who will want to read a "How to avoid cognitive surrender" take are precisely the people best positioned to apply it. The rest wouldn't bother to do either, by definition.
This is true and correct.
However, if you're not cynical about average IQ, then you haven't spent enough time in comment sections on the net!
Well, comment sections of social media sites have never been particularly nuanced, but by the same token, they are not exactly the best representations of the population as a whole.
Exactly! I refer you back to the Carlin quote. 😁
We very much see eye to eye on this! I've been framing it in my own mind as "cognitive atrophy", but it results from surrender, so this term is even more apt.
In essence, if it's a task I never, ever want to do again (like sorting rows for a spreadsheet or something really tedious), I want AI to do that every time. I'll even complain when it doesn't do it! That's a whole category of "hell yes, here are my keys, drive me everywhere you sexy thinker, you."
Another category is stuff that's deeply personal, where I just don't want to share any of that w/AI, so that's kind of at the other end.
Everything in between gets potentially messy. AI slop is real, and you have to be the human in the loop as a creator regularly. I may write something soon on this - "Cognitive Opportunity Costs", I think - mind if I use a couple quotes here? I like being lazy! Er, I mean, supporting my friends.
Why would you use my quotes if you can get ChatGPT to use my quotes for you?! You're so lazy at being lazy, dude.
And yeah, division of labor: Fun + meaningful stuff for us, everything else for AI. But what you consider fun and meaningful will definitely vary. Because, humans, are, like, different and stuff? (Claude, how do I phrase this?)