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In the long run, LLMs make us dumber
The comfort we get when offloading our cognitive load to LLMs is bad for us. Cognitive load should exist, and if we reduce it too much – if we stop thinking – we can actually unlearn how to think. Kids who always choose the easy route and copy their homework from other students eventually find […]
It all comes back to what Nassim Taleb talks about with hormesis in his insightful book Antifragile – the idea that small doses of stress or discomfort make us stronger. The theory argues that visible signs of disorder – like graffiti, litter, or broken windows – signal that neglect is tolerated, lowering informal controls and inviting further misbehavior and even serious crime. Participants transitioning from brain-only to using LLM retained strong memory recall and showed neural activation patterns similar to the Search Engine group.
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