@svpino: What happens to society’s collective intelligence after two or three years of everyone outsourcing their thinking to a …
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A rhetorical question about the potential decline in societal collective intelligence if people rely on chatbots for thinking over several years.
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What happens to society’s collective intelligence after two or three years of everyone outsourcing their thinking to a chatbot?
How many orders of magnitude dumber are we going to get?
Can we start talking about that yet, or nah?
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