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Metacognitive laziness: Effects of generative AI on learning motivation | Hacker News

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We stand now at the edge of a new epoch, reading now being replaced by AI retrieval. There is concern that AI is a crutch, the youth will be weakened. My opinion: valid concern. No way to know how it turns out. No indication yet that use of AI is harming business outcomes. The meta argument "AGI will cause massive social change" is probably true. If a large fraction of the population can’t even hold five complex ideas in their head simultaneously, without confusing them after a few seconds, are they literate in the sense of e.g. reading Plato? Median literacy in the US is famously somewhere around the 6th grade level, so it's unlikely most of the population is much troubled by the thoughts of Plato. * https://nces.ed.gov/naal/kf_demographics.asp As an aside, my observation of beginning programmers is that even two (independent) things happening at the same time is a serious cognitive load. Amusingly enough, I remember having the same trouble on the data structures final in college, so

This stands to reason. If you need the answer to a question, and you can either get it directly, or spend time researching the answer, you're going to learn much more with the latter approach than the former. You may be disciplined enough to do more research if the answer is directly presented to you, but most people will not do that, and most companies are not interested in that, they want quick 'efficient', 'competitive' solutions. They aren't considering the long term downside to this. We have accounts from the ancient Greeks of the old-school's attitude towards writing. In the deep…

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