@sun Just to be clear -- it is extremely useful and I use it very regularly. But I think it has bad second order effects, especially for lots of everyday folks, but even for me when I use judiciously.

I'm very optimistic on the potential long run economic effects of AI, but pessimistic in the short-run -- very pessimistic on the potential psychological, cultural, and existential implications of AI, but not in the annihilative or apocalyptic sense. Either way, not only to keep up with tech and culture, but from a security standpoint, it has to be leaned into.

I do think there's something to this notion of "cogsec", and that those on the lower end, exporting their critical thinking on even any and every task, are going to have heavy atrophying of the mind (but we probably all will to some extent).

Could open new doors, of course. Coming around to the idea that the luddites are often wrong in saying the relentless historical march of the technological brings us nothing of value -- it does & often great deal of it too -- but they might be right that something of value, sometimes incommensurable w/new values, is irretrievably lost.