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• AltheaHunter@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  have you considered the brain is a muscle

  Kinda undermines your point when you start with a completely untrue statement.

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  • thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s a metaphor

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• lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Okay but have you considered I only apply my brain to fun and exciting problems, and the ones at work get the clanker?

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  • athatet@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Just like you use the rest of your muscles only for fun and exciting tasks.

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    • Cheebus@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      wanking, naturally

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• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You use your brain at work? Ppffff. Overachiever.

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  • BooBees@fedinsfw.app ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, why would I train my brain repeatedly, for the majority of my life to ponder on and create almost exclusively on corporate bullshit that enriches other people? I’m thinking the bare minimum at work and getting my brain work maximized on my days and hours off.

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• zarathustrad@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Do you tell yourself that as you get out your compass and paper maps on the way to a new city.

  Land navigation is an important skill. You wouldn’t let such an important skill atrophy would you?

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  • pahlimur@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Honestly, navigation is an insanely satisfying skill to work on. Navigation without GPS fills an instinctual bucket that makes no sense to me. Letting it atrophy is a big failure in becoming a functioning adult imo.

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    • zarathustrad@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I actually agree, I just feel it’s the same hyperbolic argument every time a new technology makes something else (situationally) obsolete.

      Knowing how live off the land was once common. It can still be useful. It is even fun for some (to learn, if not do). Yet… Here we are with a vast majority of our population devoid of those skills. It will keep happening.

      This is complicated by the fact that to gain advantage (or just maintain relevance) in a complex and changing society, you need to be learning the new skills that leverage new technology. Yet systems become more complex, specialized roles are needed, and we simply can’t learn it all.

      Enter the database of all information and a technology capable of quickly searching and extracting information with relevant context. Learn to use it to your advantage, or don’t…

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      • pahlimur@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I think its more, roles that didn’t need specialty skills are being removed by a very dumb tool that dumb people think is amazing. It seems amazing if you dont understand the thing you are asking it to do.

        Living off the land is a great example. I grow ~10% of my food in a large garden, mostly tomatos, apples, pears, and peppers. Most people dont know how hard and specialized it is to do this. When we lost power for a week 2 years ago, we were totally fine. Provided food to our neighbors, no issues. Because of our time spent learning how to grow and preserve food.

        I’d argue allowing the offloading of the simple specializations AI can handle makes an overall more useless person.

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  • pulsey@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    it’s not atrophy if it never existed.

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    • zarathustrad@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      True. I forgot I’m old and know how to use maps.

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• Saapas@piefed.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I say this about anything with a motor in it. My muscles are muscles that need exercise to stay healthy and functional, offloading “work” makes my gainz weaker.

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• MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This seems more like a labour alienation problem than a laziness problem to me.

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• Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The brain is a muscle… really? I wonder where you heard that. Probably a person. Maybe you should fact check that with AI next time.

  Noone says that asking a person a question is offloading their thinking. But if you ask AI it is? How does that work?

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• Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Exercise yes. Daily 8hr Deathmatch, not so much.

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• corvi@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is something I’m currently struggling with at a new job. The product they’ve crafted is fundamentally linked to AI, insomuch as I literally can’t get the data without prompting.

  I’m doing my best to “do difficult things” outside of work to compensate, and I can only hope that’s enough

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  • mrmacduggan@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I recommend getting into Cryptic Crosswords. They give me my cogitation fix. The Youtube channel Cracking The Cryptic has a great masterclass series to get into them, and Minute Cryptic is a good way to dip your toe into the hobby.

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    • corvi@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s funny you say that. It was while doing a regular crossword that just for a millisecond I thought to myself, “Hey I bet Claude could answer that”, that I felt such disgust.

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  • redballooon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You could always write a CLI for that.

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