I basically agree with everything you say here, I guess my chief concern surrounds reducing brain rot, and I mostly just worry that we will only increase brain rot through uncritical application of LLMs, rather than decrease it.
At least there is one silver lining: your comments are evidence that not everyone has suffered that brain rot, and some of us are still out there using tools critically—thanks for a good conversation on this!
I am really glad we got the chance for this discussion and that it didn’t devolve into flaming or bad faith discussion; and i also share your sentiments RE brain rot, but for me this tech is cool yet weirdly primitive hence my excitement (I’m a 90s baby so I was “new” to the internet around the time AOL was in decline and this is the first time i feel early to something). I bet you there are ways to steer people away from their stupor using these - you know how a lie travels faster than the truth? What if these things can help equalise that?
Btw, I apologise again if I came across as blunt or rude in our exchange, upon reflection, I think you were actually right about me being somewhat emotionally invested in this (albeit due to that sliver of hope that they can be used for good). Peace be with you
At least there is one silver lining: your comments are evidence that not everyone has suffered that brain rot, and some of us are still out there using tools critically—thanks for a good conversation on this!