The shift that concerns me most isn't laziness. It's the gradual erosion of tolerance for the discomfort of not-yet-knowing. When an answer is always one prompt away, sitting with a question starts to feel like a malfunction. But that sitting, the uncertainty, the resistance, the moment where you have to actually think, is where the cognitive work happens. If AI systematically eliminates that discomfort, it doesn't just change how we find answers. It changes what we're capable of asking. The questions we can hold are shaped by the difficulty we've been willing to endure.
This sounds like a bunch of engineering requirements - optimization, if you will. Not philosophy.
The shift that concerns me most isn't laziness. It's the gradual erosion of tolerance for the discomfort of not-yet-knowing. When an answer is always one prompt away, sitting with a question starts to feel like a malfunction. But that sitting, the uncertainty, the resistance, the moment where you have to actually think, is where the cognitive work happens. If AI systematically eliminates that discomfort, it doesn't just change how we find answers. It changes what we're capable of asking. The questions we can hold are shaped by the difficulty we've been willing to endure.
but ai is openly admitting to the extraction machine angling license to steal behind stacks of $1 “privacy focused” chips
When you’re wrong, duh