Tynan

Good! That’s the sensible thing.

One also has to wonder, did they message on their phone from a safe location? Or did they hear alarm bells and their first instinct was to get on their computer and start typing?

AI offering unsolicited advice on emergency situations is a fresh, new level of hell.

Humans are historically pretty good at offloading mental capacity to some sort of tool in order to tackle larger and more complex problems. Consider solving a math problem mentally. Compare that to the kind of problem you would be able to some with a pen and paper. Then consider what you could do with a pen and paper and a calculator. An LLM purports to be all of that, and more, for any subject. It doesn’t matter that the results are often horrifically wrong, once they’ve offloaded the entirety of their mental capacity to the magic box and refocused their attention somewhere else.

I enabled an ad blocking VPN on my wife’s phone but it interfered with a streaming app so she disabled it. Sometimes she asks me to check her phone for the next step in a recipe or something, and the webpage has an ad at the top and at the bottom and the display is two thirds advertisement but she just says “it doesn’t bother me.” I don’t understand how people live like this.