What you don't get is that the 10 minutes might free up an hour of my time, which I can then use on more productive activities like watching TV on hard drugs.
this post was submitted on 07 May 2026
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Novel theory, that it's the kind of people that will engage with AI, are also the kind of people that engage in behaviors that cause TBI
Not to defend AI, but...didn't people also said that about calculators back then? And then computers?
It's just a tool, and like with every tool, you need to use it wisely and know the boundaries of its capabilities. And yours.
calculators and computers didn't push people towards suicide. AI will walk you through the steps and tell you it's the right choice.
AI has not pushed me one inch towards suicide. Then again I treat it like a calculator for words and not a therapist
"Role-playing machine" is where it seems like the research is ending up. Language always has an implied communicator, and therefore an implied persona to adopt. LLMs are foremost maintaining a contextual role. Post-training is an attempt to keep them in the Assistant role, but (particularly as contexts get large) it's trivial to push them into nearly any role imaginable. We made an improv bot that's so good at playing a coder that it can actually code, kinda.
We actually have videogames censored because one dude killed someone after playing doom. So computers kinda did. And obviously it isn't the fault of the computer. Same with the suicide-pushing. No healthy person would do what a stupid machine says. As usual, people using things of which they know nothing about and were never educated.
so like listening to a Trump speech ?
The randomness of each character after the last character and word after word as well as the ongoing hallucinations are for sure parallels.
He probably uses AI to generate his speech. I think so beacuse he makes AI slop images on Twitter.
The control group spent time practicing, and the AI group just watched the AI solve problems. The performance gap can potentially be described by the efficacy of practice alone. But the increase in skipped problems is a good illustration of cognitive offloading gone awry. Too bad the researchers didn't ask them why they chose to skip.
Behind the Bastards just started on AI as a bastard.
Thanks for the tip! I took a break after the Seville episodes. Those were rough. Robert bashing on AI sounds nice
Ha! I've spent more than ten brain not minutes my fried!