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   Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 26-Mar-2026 22:47:58 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

   Adults lose skills to AI; Children never build them. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-algorithmic-mind/202603/adults-lose-skills-to-ai-children-never-build-them

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     AI6YR Ben (ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)'s status on Thursday, 26-Mar-2026 23:13:00 JST AI6YR Ben

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     @cwebber Oooh, this quote, exactly!

     "...In my view, the most likely explanation for this is not generational preference but biological development. The older group probably offloaded tasks they already knew how to perform. The younger group offloaded task they never learned how to perform. These neural pathways for source evaluation and constructing arguments were never formed. You can’t atrophy a muscle that was never built...."

     Christine Lemmer-Webber repeated this.
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     Koen Hufkens, PhD (koen_hufkens@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Mar-2026 23:13:00 JST Koen Hufkens, PhD

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     • AI6YR Ben

     @ai6yr @cwebber When mentoring students I often get the question - how do you figure things out so quickly.

     Then I tell them that I've been messing with hardware and software since I was in my early teens - and I made tons of (innocent) mistakes.

     When you get to be an adult you then know how to approach complex systems where you might not have this much margin.

     Much of it is heuristics. Offloading heuristics (despite biases) is a VERY BAD IDEA.