[HN Gopher] "Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logi...
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       "Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking,
       research finds
        
       Author : Bender
       Score  : 30 points
       Date   : 2026-04-03 21:26 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arstechnica.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com)
        
       | david_shi wrote:
       | How I imagine "wololo" would practically work
        
       | erelong wrote:
       | This sounds like FUD to get people to abandon one of our
       | strongest cognitive enhancing toolsof all time
        
         | WolfeReader wrote:
         | Nope, its a well-researched article which shows its sources and
         | qualifies its conclusions. You may not like the conclusions,
         | but that doesn't make it FUD.
        
         | georgemcbay wrote:
         | > This sounds like FUD to get people to abandon one of our
         | strongest cognitive enhancing toolsof all time
         | 
         | AI's existence is like the mental equivalent of a heavy
         | weighted barbell that also happens to be edible and tastes
         | delicious. You could use it in a way to get in great shape, you
         | could also use it in a way where you get type 2 diabetes.
         | 
         | It is up to you and your own experiences to decide how that is
         | likely to go for most people.
        
       | Rygian wrote:
       | The very next entry on the homepage, just below this one: "The
       | danger of military AI isn't killer robots; it's worse human
       | judgement"
       | 
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632016
        
       | add-sub-mul-div wrote:
       | Funny, the author of this piece was one of the two on the byline
       | of the Ars article with the AI-fabricated quotes.
       | 
       | The cognitive surrender is the most predictable outcome. Many
       | here will claim they'll rise above the path of least resistance
       | and use AI responsibly, and even if that is true for many here,
       | think about the most typical worker. Those who only want to go
       | home at 5 after putting the least amount of effort into their
       | job. Our society is about to be rewritten by them.
        
       | TacticalCoder wrote:
       | Don't know about that research but I certainly have read many HN
       | comments made by those who drank the AI kool-aid (and I write
       | this as someone using Claude Code CLI daily) where any semblance
       | of logical thinking was gone.
        
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