[keiferski]

One thing I’ve noticed with AI tools is that many people are entirely willing to offload the thinking process to the machine. They don’t use it as a way to enhance their capabilities or come up with new ideas, but just to do the work entirely. It reminds me of this line from Agent Smith:

…which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this, the peak of your civilization. I say your civilization because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization, which is of course what this is all about.

[cvwright]

I can’t help but be reminded of my employer’s favorite quote from Dune:

> Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

[blacksmith_tb]

Or as the old zine In Formation put it, "Every day, computers are making people easier to use." [1]

1: https://twitter.com/davidtemkin/status/1028129852895813632?l...

[ThrowawayR2]

There's also a more comedic take on that theme from SMBC: https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3576

(Spoilers ahead) I actually like the comic very much; it's too uncomfortably plausible that humans might simply become too lazy and dependent on AGI to bother to maintain our own agency and thus doom ourselves.