One easy trick to make yourself smarter.
When Using AI, Users Fall for the Dunning-Kruger Trap in Reverse - Neuroscience News
A new study reveals that when interacting with AI tools like ChatGPT, everyone—regardless of skill level—overestimates their performance.
Don't grade an AI agent by its answer - Sensemaker
UK AISI found frontier models taking prohibited shortcuts in cyber evaluations, while self-report and written reasoning failed to reveal them reliably.
Make AI Boring Again (xpost)
On the ethics of engagement, the problem with purity politics, and a world worth fighting for Crossposted from here. I am a contrarian who likes to argue and complain a lot. Because of this…
Do not give up your brain
It's tempting to just let tools think for you, but you still need to be able to think for yourself and stay sharp.
Please stop multitasking. I’m begging you. Please.
The greatest trick we ever pulled on ourselves as knowledge workers was convincing ourselves we could juggle multiple projects with no consequences.
'It's rigged': The dirty secret behind what IQ scores really measure | BBC Science Focus Magazine
Besides being next to useless for actually measuring intelligence, here's why we should kill IQ scores for good
#158: Build your AI Brain
How I built a second brain that gets smarter every day
I pulled ~90,000 Reddit posts about what makes writing "sound like AI" to determine the biggest AI-slop giveaways (Part 2)
674 votes, 228 comments. The majority of people can instantly tell when writing is generated by AI. For those who don't intend to get into the weeds…
All the ways I want the AI debate to be better
Ground truths, useful rules, ideas I'd like taken seriously, and a rant
I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI - and it only took 20 minutes
I found a way to make AI tell you lies – and I'm not the only one.
The mistake we all make... and the simple experiment that reveals it
Your answer reveals how you see the world – and the common error that hampers our decision making. In an extract from his new book, psychologist Richard Nisbett reveals the ‘mindware’ to help us think smarter
AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance
Causal evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and impairs unassisted performance across math reasoning and reading comprehension tasks.
"Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds
Experiments show large majorities uncritically accepting "faulty" AI answers.
This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
More Perfect Union
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?" Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
