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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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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Cat Hicks
“Ok, so if you've been following along my weekend I've seen this study/preprint shared around a bunch and I decided the people needed a replication opportunity it is here: persist-study.pages.dev Based on this: 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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Hypervisible : 🤷🏿‍♂️
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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AI not ready strategic conflicts paper

Position: AI Is Not Ready for Strategic Conflicts

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Mark Riedl
“I wrote a paper on why AI ahoule not be used in military planning militaryai.ai/anthropic-cl... COLM Workshop paper: arxiv.org/abs/2609.16189” evidence ↗
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Mark Riedl Juan Diego Rodriguez Ronen Tamari

“I wrote a paper on why AI ahoule not be used in military planning militaryai.ai/anthropic-cl... COLM Workshop paper: arxiv.org/abs/2609.16189”

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Mark Riedl: If you find this concerning, come find me at the CoLM 2026 Workshop on Social Simulations with LLM where I will be presenting a poster titled "AI is Not Ready for Strategic Conflict" arxiv.org/abs/…
Mark Riedl: Source of quote: Time's interview with Trump time.com/article/2026...
Mark Riedl: Here's the abstract arxiv.org/abs/2609.16189
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3 experts · 23 posts · 16d ago
Ted Underwood Juan Diego Rodriguez Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)
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“Fortunately, that bridge itself is easy as heck to copy and make free. At this point pretty much everything that was gained from the initial pre-training is in fact, universally shared. Differences…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Policy & governance · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
Ted Underwood: It's okay to learn from everything, and train on everything. That's everyone's birthright, and we shouldn't apologize for it. Prohibitions on copying were a late invention, and a narrowly tailored …
Ted Underwood: I like compromises. But one place I don't believe in meeting people halfway, or 5% of the way, is the notion that AI would be better if not based on texts/images that governments have made illegal …
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