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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI is rotting your brain and making you stupid⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Again, you’re being reductive. My argument is not that we will stop practising critical thinking altogether, but that we will not need to practise it as often. Less practise always makes you worse at something. I do not need evidence for that as it is obvious.

  I don’t see a point to continuing this conversation if you keep reducing my argument to “nobody will think anymore”.

  I am glad you use AI for reasons that don’t make you stupid, but I have seen how today’s students are using it instead of using their brains. It’s not good. We teach critical thinking in schools for a reason, because it’s something that does not always come naturally, and these students are getting AI to do the work for them instead of learning how to think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI is rotting your brain and making you stupid⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The people who were used to the oral tradition were right. Memorising things is good for your memory. No, I don’t think people will stop thinking altogether (please don’t be reductive like this lmao), just as people didn’t stop remembering things. But people did get worse at remembering things. Just as people might get worse at applying critical thinking if they continually offload those processes to AI. We know that using tools makes us worse at whatever the tool automates, because without practice you become worse at things. This just hasn’t really been a problem before as the tools generally make those things obselete.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI is rotting your brain and making you stupid⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t think it’s possible that offloading thought to AI could make you worse at thinking? Has been the case with technology in the past, such as calculators making us worse at math (in our heads or on paper), but this time the thing you’re losing practice in is… thought. This technology is different because it’s aiming to automate thought itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hundreds complain about failing mobile phone service since 3G switched off⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep that’s the explanation I’ve heard. Telcos shifting this mess onto the consumer is pretty obviously not ideal. They shouldn’t have gone ahead with the 3G shutoff knowing these issues existed.

  They could have waited 4-5 years for the majority of Aussies upgrade to a new phone that supports Telstra’s VoLTE, implemented a fallback system on Telstra’s network for phones that don’t support it, etc.

  But they didn’t.

  Super poor form imo. If our government were serious about protecting Australians they would do something to punish these companies. But they won’t. And our slow slide towards America-style late-stage capitalism will continue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hundreds complain about failing mobile phone service since 3G switched off⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This whole thing has been a mess. Thousands of Aussies had to buy new phones due to them using a phone allowlist instead of a blocklist (arguably they should have just let the phones stop working instead of blocking them outright). The allowlist they used was missing hundreds of 4G capable phones and was missing just about every overseas model of phone. I know 2 people whose phones were blocked for no reason.

  Tourists coming to Australia are finding their phones blocked here, preventing them from using their phones in Australia.

  000 calls are borked for thousands of Aussies as well.

  We are one of the only countries in the world to turn off 3G. And we’re certainly the only one to fuck it up this badly. I’m convinced the big telcos only did this to drive phone sales (many of which will be bought/leased on exploitative plans), because god knows there’s no other compelling reason to shut 3G off.

  What a joke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My blog now has Lemmy comments⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  History in the making. This is what open source is all about.