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GreatGazoo

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4. Certainty is an emotion

Reply to usonian (Original post)

Wed Jun 3, 2026, 11:08 AM

20 hrs ago

I study and discuss history frequently. There is a wonderful trend now toward demanding primary sources, not summaries or narratives because those are much less reliable. AI is terrible at summarizing history.

AI is a Dunning-Kruger machine. Confidently asserting absolute lies. My general impression is that people started to see through the lie that AI is intelligent about 6 months ago. As the graduation speaker said, 'AI is making mediocre people even dumber' for now but when its limitations are better understood and there is more competition for quality that may change.

AI is not thinking, not "intelligence". It is text generating algorithms.

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AI and the Psychology of Cognitive Surrender (Psychology Today) [View all] usonian 20 hrs ago OP

Likely all true, but emotional codependence was modeled by many conventional families bucolic_frolic 20 hrs ago #1

Society, IMO, is largely about externalizing, "The Devil Made me Do it" despite rugged individualist claims. usonian 20 hrs ago #2

And this is why I refuse to use it & ignore anything generated by it Tim S 20 hrs ago #3

Certainty is an emotion GreatGazoo 20 hrs ago #4

That's why Trump is provably a chatbot. usonian 20 hrs ago #5