[protocolture]

>But to latch onto the calculator argument: if you outsource adding numbers to a calculator, you're still you. On the flip side, if you use an LLM do most of your thinking, what's left? We have people here who use LLMs to raise their children, to manage relationships, to design products. So what's your unique contribution to this world - is it the prompt you once wrote? You're standing in front of a token-generating machine, pulling a lever, sometimes receiving gifts. Is that your edge, your unique experience, your purpose in life?

Cognitive offloading seems to be a feature of humans, we do it with spouses and people we work with.

I dont see why offloading some other stuff to an LLM is going to dehumanise someone.

[backwardsponcho]

When people interact with spouses and coworkers, it's still human-to-human interaction. There is a person on the other end. Not quite the same when your head doctor, DJ, gym coach, and nutritionist are the same sycophant machine who's eager to let you know how absolutely right you are.

[protocolture]

>There is a person on the other end.

Not sure why that matters tbh.

Cognitive Offloading is a human ability. We built a tool that can be used with it in absence of another person.

The argument seemed to be that Cognitive Offloading dehumanised a person, but now things have shifted to "Its only good with another human".

If its worthwhile we will do it, if its not worthwhile we wont.