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Multiple readings Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News

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“As someone with deep concerns about every aspect of AI, I would like to see the math part of this study run with a calculator or a search engine in place of a chatbot to help disambiguate what is new here. news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...” evidence ↗
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Shannon Vallor Juan Diego Rodriguez Olivia Guest Hypervisible Cat Hicks Karl Bode lastpositivist.bsky.social Nick Seaver +5
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evacide: I cannot overstate how much I have built my entire personality around persisting at hard things, which may help to explain why I find rarely find AI tools to be useful.
Hypervisible : Same! I don’t think I’m overstating things to say part of the project with these tools is to sap our wills.
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9 experts · 63 posts · 15d ago
Eugene Vinitsky Ted Underwood Cat Hicks Chelsea Parlett critical slop studies Adam L Mary Branscombe Amy Hoy
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“If one wants to seriously critique capitalism one also need to reckon with the reality of how much versions of it have lifted quality of life across society and how difficult this is. I am not inte…” evidence ↗
Reaction converging Markets & investment · 4 Research & technical analysis · 1
Cat Hicks: "why would I ever need a task to be done faster" come on, guys. Because we're dying. Because we are literally all dying all the time. Because we're running out of time. The fact that it's often har…
Cat Hicks: because tasks gate other tasks. Because measuring the hours saved by washing machines is a relatively useful index for quality of life improvement. Because the time it takes for you to get from the…
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6 experts · 34 posts · 16d ago
angela zhou Cat Hicks lastpositivist.bsky.social Colin tweety fish Matt Darling
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“the steelman case is that latent population attitudes have to be somewhere in the training corpora, right? that years of reddit posts encode the implicit ratio of concern about electric prices vs. …” evidence ↗
Reaction converging Questions & unknowns · 3 Concern & critique · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Colin: I don’t understand why people think this isn’t the most obvious question in the world. No, of course not. You don’t know what the distribution of responses will be; that’s why you do the survey.
Matt Darling: I do think there's a case for doing this sort of thing because it's cheap - especially if you are just testing questions before a real survey.
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2 experts · 27 posts · 14d ago
Cat Hicks Isaiah Bishop
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“I'm not trying to argue with his achievements come on. I just think as a post it's a bit misleading” evidence ↗
Shared emphasis Questions & unknowns · 2
Cat Hicks: Beyond parody actually
Cat Hicks: Also evolution is "misaligned" with larger goals like "not getting cancer" Amazing to me how much this era is revealing a desire for a kind of top down perfect design to the universe
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