This is a very interesting way of saying that by offloading the procession of thoughts we take to come to a conclusion individually we become more dull and homogenized as a whole when using ai "shortcuts".
I think this is true with many tools but pronounced here with how ubiquitous language is. For most of human history most people could not read and write. Given llm interaction is almost exclusively written we may take a small step back where a mass of people are lazy using shortcuts and others are not.
It already is, most of my friends don't read anything beyond social networks anymore. This is already happening and was in progress long before LLMs, they are mostly fast tracking the process.
Just the other day, someone saw a pile of textbooks in my room and commented incredulously that I ‘still learn things from books?’
It was one of the most jarringly alien things I’ve ever heard, like being told that everyone has moved on from toilet paper to just using their hands, but I missed the memo.
I can't imagine. I get so much gratification from reading all kinds of things. I enjoy a bit of stuff like this, but to go without things like science fiction, research papers, fantasy, other novels... I'd feel like there was so much missing.
