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Their wordsStudies have already shown that our cognitive abilities diminish when we hand over our thinking to something else. Our brains die if they are not used. I thus refuse to hand over even the most mundane of my tasks to AI.
Their wordsI’m shocked by how many people are deluded into thinking there is something real about their relationships with AI.
Their wordsI feel like if I am going to have a relationship of any kind with someone, they ought to know me as I really am. I don’t want them to learn to love some surface version of me.
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