I get there’s some nuances to the overall gun violence problem. It’s just outlandish to me that anyone thinks giving more weapons to more people is a remedy.

If increased access to guns was able to — in any way — reduce gun crime, the United States would have no gun crime.

We do not want to have the kind of revelation we had about the consequences of leaded gasoline or cigarette smoke later on down the line.

Please, let’s get this one right.

The amount of effort many leftists exert on attacking liberals would be much better spent building a coalition to genuinely affect change. Mamdani is a perfect example of this — held onto solid, progressive stances without alienating more moderate liberals. A great path forward for unity.

Zohran Mamdani, for example, did not win the mayoral primary in NYC by luck or miracle. He won by being the kind of person which people have been begging for for years now. It’s not just policy. Understanding what happened in NYC yesterday is critical to our immediate and long term political future.

What political strategists need to understand in this moment is that people are hungry for an optimistic politics which strives to make government effective and responsive. That looks like a lot of different things, but one thing is certain — nobody wants any more stuffy corporate moderates.

You won’t ever convince me to “get used to” willingly stunting human development in order to bow down to machines.

I was partway through college when it rolled out properly. I literally watched the brain drain happen in real time.

Also, “it wasn’t perfect before” is not a good excuse to go ahead and deliver a killing blow to critical thinking skills.

Like I said, I’m confident that shifting this much of our learning capacity onto AI is going to stunt an entire generation’s capability to think independently. I don’t want a generation that thinks in terms of LLM prompts, but it seems like that’s where we’re heading.

For one, confident factual inaccuracies. It spits out the wrong answers authoritatively — and some of my peers would fall for it.

I also sent you a post referencing a different concern that came up. When AI does that much ground work for you, you lose the learning benefits.

I’ve used it, found it deeply concerning, and decided to wait on using it until it had some time to mature more.

That caution is only proving to be more reasonable with time. It very much seems like it’s stunting essential thinking skills.

Is that all you can say in defense of it?

Widespread Use of ChatGPT has consequences we have no idea are coming.

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Was also fun for my longtime love of photography and classic cars to run headlong into my much newer interest in racing.

I just think it’s already unleashed so much more harm than it can do good. I fear we are stunting the intelligence and critical thinking of an entire generation of people.

I might agree with you if there were any chance that there was rigorous fact-checking happening.

But, to most users, the whole point of using AI to generate their work for them is to avoid having to do that level of research and preparation.

Reading stuff like this makes me want all LLMs banned.

A bit hyperbolic, but I am terrified of the consequences of an entire generation of people whose education consisted largely of just typing prompts into chatGPT.

That’s quite funny 😆 one would think that the initials JV would be less common! I hadn’t even thought about it until just now