Joel Pearson

So it's not just doing the boring stuff.

It's also just as we outsource, you know, every decision, everything we do more and more to AI, what is going to happen to our brains?

What's going to happen to our ability to think and make decisions by ourselves?

And some people are predicting that we're going to see the first generation where the IQ is lower than the generation before, which has never happened before.

Right.

And, you know, as you outsourced AI for more and more things, it absolutely is going to change your brain.

And you can think about, you know, when digital GPS was introduced, people before that, people had amazing ability to navigate and drive.

And if they got stuck, they'd use a map, but they'd have to remember that, you know, the spatial layout of things.

Now we don't do that.

We just sort of plug it into a GPS thing.

And that would have absolutely changed, rewired our brains.

For that case, it's hard to say whether that's for good or bad.

For some situations, for navigating without a GPS, that's going to be bad.

Now, the thing with AI is like this brain rot.

What's going to happen to us as we just give up on this ability to critically think hard?

And we're seeing a little bit of that already.

Yeah.

People are stuck in this bind where there's this pressure to use AI as much as possible.

But the more we use it, the more we're going to lose the capacity to think for ourselves, to think deeply.

And we're going to sort of... The resistance, like you said, of thinking hard and from first principles just gets harder and harder.