MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline

Re:MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to C... by card_zero on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @10:39AM (#45116387)

I can fart in the general direction of the code and that's a kind of abstraction too. It distills my intent down to a simple raspberry noise which could then be interpreted by sufficiently intelligent software.

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Re:MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to C... by joenot443 on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @10:43AM (#45116422)

Sort of like when people argue about "what is art?", some folks find it clever to come up with the most bizarre of examples to point to, as if the entire concept rests on the existence of its members at the fringe.

Personally, I think if your farts are an abstraction that you can derive useful meaning from the mapping, who are we to tell you no?

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Re:MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to C... by card_zero on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @10:47AM (#45116461)

So, can derive useful meaning from is the point of contention.

(Also: bizarre examples = informative edge cases. Sometimes.)

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Re:MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to C... by Phemist on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @10:46AM (#45116448)

The final result of course depending on how many r's there are in the raspberry.

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Re:MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to C... by chaps on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @10:44AM (#45116423)

Could you please expand on this thought? I'm curious where this abstraction's inflection points are.

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