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Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
rotnroll666 ("Michael Simons") wrote:
Let that sink in. Even one of the loud and vocal AI proponents such as @simon admits
“I no longer have a firm mental model of what they can do and how they work, which means each additional feature becomes harder to reason about, eventually leading me to lose the ability to make confident decisions about where to go next.”
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/cognitive-debt/
Not afraid of many things AI can inflict on my life, but I’m personally very much afraid of acquired helplessness such as this.