every new report on LLM's impact on users consistently reinforces the fact that LLM reliance leads to cognitive deficits, and yet LLM reliance is now almost ubiquitous among college undergraduates
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just anecdotally I'm pretty sure the availability of search engines did something to my memory, compared to just like, studying books and remembering the shit in them
I can't even imagine how much worse the Confident Lies Machine is
Cognitive Debt is a pretty loaded term for 'they did less work with the subject so they internalized the information less.'
I imagine the idea is that by relying on LLMs people can "get by" for a while, appearing to be functional and learning. Eventually, though, that lack of genuine thinking is going to come due. It's like buying everything you need with a credit card: it works for a while, but eventually you have to stop.
