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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 homework boost exam performance drop

Study finds AI boosted homework scores 18%—then tanked exam results 20% | Fortune

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Shannon Vallor
“But of course repeating the study in conditions with a real reward would be informative. In a sense that’s what longitudinal studies like the one on undergrads in China did, since they suffered actual exam score losses.” evidence ↗
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Mark Riedl Shannon Vallor

“But of course repeating the study in conditions with a real reward would be informative. In a sense that’s what longitudinal studies like the one on undergrads in China did, since they suffered actual exam score losses.”

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2 experts · 45 posts · 10d ago
Shannon Vallor Singularity's Bounty e/cc
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“There are lots of systems that preserve memories between conversations. Within a conversation, the models exhibit in-context learning and in-context memory. So while the weights are static, you hav…” evidence ↗
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Singularity's Bounty e/cc: The strongest statement I make is "I don't know" and I've never been proven wrong yet
Singularity's Bounty e/cc: Are there really? I see some people speculating or positing consciousness but I don't see many people making that as a bold assertion It may be my moots are more restrained
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2 experts · 5 posts · 1d ago
Shannon Vallor Dr Keith Wilson 🏳️‍🌈
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“It monitors and represents its internal states. It can also adapt its future states based upon internal measures of those occurrent states (adaptive cruise control). How are you using recursive in …” evidence ↗
Dr Keith Wilson 🏳️‍🌈: #PhilMind #Consciousness #PhilAI #LLMs #GenAI
Dr Keith Wilson 🏳️‍🌈: At last: @neddo.bsky.social schools the 'conscious AI' brigade. Been waiting for this for a while www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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2 experts · 3 posts · 12d ago
Shannon Vallor Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor
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“Many have posted the news story below. I have three responses. (1) I am not a fan of offloading human cognition onto genAI. (2) But I think the research article in question has, *potentially*, some…” evidence ↗
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor: I am working to figure out how serious (if at all serious) the issues that I have in mind are.
Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor: Many have posted the news story below. I have three responses. (1) I am not a fan of offloading human cognition onto genAI. (2) But I think the research article in question has, *potentially*, some…
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