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Re:MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to C... by mooreds on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @11:55AM (#45117240)
I've posted this Asimov short story before, but this comment inspires me to post it again.

http://employees.oneonta.edu/blechmjb/JBpages/m360/Professio...

"Somewhere there must be men and women with capacity for original thought."

He wrote that in 1957. 1957!

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Re:MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to C... by Terr_ on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @12:15PM (#45117518)
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Re:MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to C... by ducttapecrown on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @12:07PM (#45117384)
It turns out incremental thought is much better than original thought. I guess.
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Re:MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to C... by zem on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @12:36PM (#45117784)
perhaps my favourite of his short stories. there's also the more satirical "the feeling of power", which touches on the same theme https://ia800806.us.archive.org/20/items/TheFeelingOfPower/T...
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