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Why is it... the only? Do you think Dick was riffing off this precarious history when he wrote Man in the High Castle?

This feels significant. What if, without understanding how AI works, or even clearly understanding how cognition works, treating is at oracle or deity, or simply just a really weird calculator, theres a tendency to allow the LLM to reason for us, or else reinforce biases (and hence pathways?) My programming ability has certainly declined, but I am also thinking with scope, and with patterns more than in the past, solving work related problems more quickly. What to do with this extra energy is a wholenother matter. If I engage in other activities not requiring the computer, would this compensate for whatever the negative effect this loss of complexity entails?

Should this problem be solved (as it very well could be) or, should ecological and environment constraints and limitations drive policy considerations here?