[nnnnnande]

I said the same thing to my SO the first time I tried out ChatGPT.

However, I'm not sure if AI is where I'd draw the boundary for myself at least, as I've had the same lingering feeling from only reading HN comments and seldom writing my own, or consuming BreadTube content for instance.

More often than not, my opinions and thoughts are constructed for me by someone else as opposed to me doing my own critical thinking. Perhaps I'm one of the below-average thinkers for who ChatGPT will be a godsend.

[kelseyfrog]

Some of my favorite thoughts are those that I wouldn't in a million years have come up with on my own. Being exposed to these is a warp gate for the mind.

The strange thing about being human is that we have an inordinate capacity to normalize and then universalize just about anything. On one had this plasticity allows us to deal with almost anything we are apt to encounter. On the other hand, it's an enormous blind spot to what could be. We're much more likely to add to our initial mental model than conceive of an entirely new perspective and it's these entirely new perspectives that I value the most.

[ghaff]

My experience with ChatGPT writing is that, if I have some essentially boilerplate to put down on page and work from, it's "fine" so long as I know enough to cross out the stuff I don't like and expand on the parts I do. Saves some time. But if I ask it to analyze a more complicated/nuanced question, it's far less useful. It certainly doesn't come up with unique insights into complicated topics I have a lot of familiarity with so far as I've experienced.