Comment by chrismorgan

The thread has gone from the front page now, so I’ll share my summary of my personal reasons: https://chrismorgan.info/ai. As regards learning, I haven’t written anything down, and doing it justice would take longer than I am willing to spend now. It’s not exactly the same area, but <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd-_VDYit3U> is five minutes of expert testimony to the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee on 2026-01-15 about the resoundingly negative consequences of tech in education. There’s plenty of other well-established research in adjacent areas, things like just how valuable handwriting is for memory retention. It has been established for a long time that struggle is intrinsically valuable for human accomplishment, in areas physical and mental. It’s barely even an extrapolation to say that relying on LLMs will hinder your deep learning (irony indeed). I have no doubt that some will be able to learn better or faster with them, if they use them in disciplined fashion, but even that will be difficult, for they are designed to be addictive, just as social media is. You’ll get going a lot more quickly, but the struggle is not the only thing you’ll lose.

Humanly speaking, it truly is alarming what we’re doing to ourselves.