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@ NSmolenskiFan
2025-05-13 05:25:27
The rise of LLMs in education has made more apparent who is using the new technology as a prosthesis—to enhance their ability to learn—and who is using it to outsource responsibility for their own minds.
This outsourcing of responsibility is nothing new. People have been doing it since time immemorial: letting authorities, crowds, and received wisdom think for them. Technology only accelerates that. Technology shows us our character—and if we don’t like it, it gives us the opportunity to become better people.
There will always be alpha in thinking for yourself and being your own person. But it’s a much harder road than “going with the flow” and contenting oneself with the illusions of intelligence, virtue, insight, agency, and independence.
People who insist on learning and becoming in good faith will make mistakes; they will fail; they will look dumb; they will disagree with their past selves; they will repent; they will be humbled; they will forego opportunities for easy power and pleasure that others take advantage of.
But they will live truthfully, and it is the truth of their lives that will inevitably transform them—and, over time, the world.