Truth-ish

Everyone forgets about the sophists and the complexity of truth. There seems to be a growing understanding that ai will make people lazier and dumber because they no longer think for themselves.

Do you know what this looks exactly like from thousands of years ago? The sophists. They taught how to win an argument with no facts or evidence, just a way to be effective at communication and in court. Truth took a backseat to argumentation, but everyone survived.

I'm not doubting that some people will cease thinking and be impacted by ai negatively. That will happen. But why does no one focus on the positive and incredible ability ai gives us?

False understanding has been a problem since language was invented, it's not a new phenomenon to think you understand something only to realize you are wrong. Now it's faster, and there is a lot of money going into figuring out these problems.

Source: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-digital-self/202512/watching-intelligence-lose-its-friction/amp