”You can outsource your thinking, but you can’t outsource your understanding” — probably some AI

I think actual thinking is now more valuable than ever.

Was it Sam Altman, who said that they intent exactly that? To offer intelligence as a service?

I trust myself to be hard headed enough to keep my intelligence from atrophy, but it's going to suck living in a society where most people don't (or who never developed it at all).

The other day I was at the theatre and I overheard the people next to me glad that they had the best tickets because chatgpt had advised what to buy. The big tip was choosing something centered rather than very angled. Sigh.

I also wonder if this is so visible because a lot of people don't really care what they do and will happily use any bullshit machine to simulate work.