John Burn-Murdoch
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All right, I would even say both.
As in, sure, specifically, it doesn't tend to be emphasizing go do your team sport.
It's more about personal improvement.
But I think often a huge amount of wellness is not even about the physical at all.
It's the focus on the mental, which as you've shown in your reporting,
ignoring or at least de-emphasizing the physical when we know how dramatic the positive impacts of that can be, I think is quite striking.
Yeah, I mean, that's exactly the framing I've been thinking about as well.
So I saw someone, I think, talking about how GPT, LLMs in general could be like, you could have this Socratic dialogue where you're constantly being pushed and guided through the topic, the academic topic that you're working on.
you're the boundaries of your knowledge are constantly being pushed and you've you've got this sort of it it's like you know like a strenuous workout for your brain um where you're with a personal trainer that you're really being pushed to do your best and i can totally you can instantly see the types of people either of their own volitional because of being pushed in that direction by their parents who would end up using llms like that
And then at the other end of the spectrum, and I think this is probably a much larger slice of the population, you've got people who were asked to write an essay about the book that they supposedly read, but they haven't because they were distracted by TikTok.
Well, why not just get the LLM to write that essay and remove the em dashes?
But that's the thing.
And we don't want to get ahead of ourselves.
This isn't happening, or there's no evidence that this is happening yet.
But it does feel like a tool which can simultaneously or could equally be used
to enhance your knowledge or to sidestep the need to acquire knowledge.
That is just a sort of conscientiousness multiplier that could really widen the inequalities and outcomes between high and low conscientious people.
Sure.
So I'll say there's two parts to this as well, right?
So I think one is the sort of anxiety, mental health, well-being bit.