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by vasco 768 days ago
Depends what the alternative is. If on average people would lose that fleeting thought and never dig into it or research it more it can be a huge net positive to write them down, even disorganized and having a history of what you thought about. And actually debate the thought with the AI and get an outside perspective.

On the other hand if on average people would in fact dig into them, you might lose the ability to organize your thoughts yourself over time, but I always think that sort of fear is overblown.

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I have found that writing everything down eroded my ability to remember a couple of important tasks for the day, so I started to exercise that part of the brain to get the ability back.

Any capability of the brain not exercised will certainly wither. While brain consumes the most energy, it tries to minimize it at the same time. Using AI extensively to accomplish mundane tasks will rob you of the ability in the long run.

This is the law of the body. Use it or lose it.