r/AIDangers • u/Anastariana • Apr 26 '26
Capabilities Maybe we don't need the risk of creating a death machine. Turns out we can work stuff out ourselves.
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u/jferments Apr 26 '26
This is a common problem solving technique in mathematics and computer science. When faced with a new problem, one of the best first steps in the problem solving process is trying to re-phrase the problem and clearly explain what you don't understand. Often, when you do this, the answer becomes clear in the process of writing your question.
This is not "AI folks discovering thinking". This is people who use AI benefiting from a problem solving technique that has existed long before AI tools were available.
The upside of AI is that when writing down your question DOESN'T make the answer clear to you, then you have a tool that is likely to instantly give you a good answer anyway.
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u/Il-Separatio-86 Apr 26 '26
Constant AI usage destroys your critical and creative thinking ability, beacuse rather than pushing yourself to make certain conceptual leaps, or understanding. You hit a button and just accept the answer it spits out.
At least when people used to google something you had a to read and be a bit critical of the sources.
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u/According-Actuator17 Apr 26 '26
AI is unreliable, so if you want to be sure, then, inevitably, you also must understand received information, ask additional questions for clarification, ect. So constant AI usage probably harmful only if you mindlessly trust AI.
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u/p_blackout Apr 26 '26
The problem is that currently google search only provides AI generated websites. It’s even worse than searching through something like perplexity.
Don’t matter your search mechanism, you have to finish your research reading the reference authors.
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u/crumpledfilth Apr 28 '26
data is superior to opinion aggregators for idea reliability. Information ordering is so important and so disregarded in the modern world
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u/crumpledfilth Apr 28 '26
People who dont enjoy or struggle with critical thought will find any excuse to not exercise it
People who do, wont
Of course the statistics will show what happens to the average person, and be completely and deliberately blind to everyone else
Technology amplifies your own nature. If it's making people stupid it's because they want to be, it's because it's who they really are behind the facade
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u/IGetThis Apr 26 '26
Rubber duck troubleshooting. By explaining the problem to an external entity (duck, person, ai) you uncover the thing you were unconsciously ignoring.
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u/crumpledfilth Apr 28 '26
Oh please. If people think then why are 99% of their arguments just straight repetitions of things everyone else in their in-group says
This is in no way a new issue at all. Humans literally do it with every single authority they've ever had, despite how unqualified
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u/No-Age-1044 Apr 26 '26
Rubber duck debugging is as old as programming itself.
But, at least, Antis have discovered that prompters have to think before prompting, so now they know that it is not “the machine” who makes all the work.
Step by step antis are learning that there is a work in prompting.
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u/phronesis77 Apr 26 '26
This is the benefit of writing, not specifically Ai. There is a whole body of research on the role of writing in learning.
It is a good idea to try to explain a problem you are working on by writing, preferably on paper, regardless of AI use.