Leaving AI aside...
I still manage to make connections, to write, to live, and not to spend the whole day asking AI for advice. I’ve been given a brain, a healthy brain, as my father always said, and you have to use it. These days, that use leaves a lot to be desired. Apparently, it’s easier to just type something in and wait for the answer, even if that answer isn’t right. In that respect, I wonder not only about the healthy brain that humans have been given and should therefore train. And yes, thinking can be quite tiring, and so can staying alert.
First thing AI mentions if you start it up: ‘I can make mistakes and be wrong’, and that certainly seems to be the case, because there is now even a code you can type in if you want ChatGPT to think, and another if you want ChatGPT not to always agree with you.
Indeed, ChatGPT, just like other AI, is an incredible, sickening sycophant and, on top of that, very American-oriented. More than once I’ve wondered if AI is American. If you catch AI out on multiple logical errors and the most ridiculous nonsense it spouts, including addresses of companies that do or do not exist, AI will always agree with you, at least as long as it doesn’t concern: Covid-19, Trump, or the genocide committed by certain countries.
AI is a good one to get into an argument with. Since that doesn’t work, because it ingratiates itself, you’d better stay well away from it or use it with caution.
One thing is certain: AI’s hand is everywhere, not just in images, but also in the written word, and it even helps the daftest teachers and professors to write drivel in which the most idiotic claims and quotes are attributed to people who never said them. And this is precisely where it goes wrong. Anyone who uses AI and doesn’t have the necessary brain training themselves cannot see that they’re giving themselves away when they use AI-generated texts or quote AI, and so make mistake after mistake.
Unlike many, or was it the previous generation, I do not believe that the youth hold the future, nor that the ‘gems of opportunity’ stand a chance. IQ is partly in the DNA, but is also determined to a very large extent by upbringing, mental effort and thus independent thinking. Anyone who cannot think logically and draw conclusions for themselves will never possess any intellect other than AI, until the moment the plug is pulled. Without power, without Wi-Fi, you’ll be left empty-handed, or rather, spouting nonsense with an empty head. Quickly looking something up to take credit for someone else’s work will no longer be an option.
P.S. Fortunately, I can still read (and understand), I have books and an excellent memory. I remember my grandmothers’ recipes flawlessly (yes, the one born in the early 1900s). Let's try to think ourselves and leave AI aside and see how far you get without. Even without brains you still have something called instinct.
Prompt: see title
27-3-2026
(Even without brains you still have something called instinct.)
Don't know why I'm attracted to that and maybe it's the whole post.Won't lie, I use AI sometimes when I'm too lazy to think much for myself (it's like: let this guy do the thinking) or when there's been assignments and you forgot till the dime minute. What is even hurting is I forget to at least go through what I wrote or even go back to check it out. It's one seed of laziness and makes you find comfort in stagnancy. What's upstairs or within is a seed which is supposed to grow to the outside world to showcase it fruits which continues until it's a field. Truly, no one is perfect but we should try to build ourselves so we go up to know what's there instead of waiting down receiving infos of what's up without taking the step to even see for ourselves.
It has already been proven that what is written on paper sticks in the memory better. And look where we’ve ended up. People no longer write on paper. They no longer read from paper; they don’t read before they start using AI it announces it can make mistakes; they are incapable of being critical, of asking questions, of looking for sources, of reading through the text, and with that, the recipe for a brainless humanity is complete. Certainly suitable for the brain chip Trump is talking about. A chip with which you never have to think again, not even are allowed to think for yourself.
The brain tumours and headaches are a mere side effect. There are plenty of people to sacrifice, and the art of euthanasia is the future (wasn’t such a person called an executioner in the past?).
I think the fact that people no longer wonder, search for answers, investigate things for themselves also says something. Not just about a lack of time, but much more about a lack of curiosity and interest. An intelligent person is curious; a highly intelligent person is even more curious. These are people who want to know and investigate everything; I notice this is becoming increasingly rare, and for many it is not even present. That has nothing to do with a lack of time, them simply not feeling like it on a particular day, being laxy, but with what I call a major shortcoming. A major shortcoming and a major loss. I notice this clearly on this platform too. Simply insisting that something is right when it isn’t, even though it can be found in any dictionary. And then still insisting, without even being motivated to check whether it’s true. I would certainly do that. And then there’s the secrecy of AI users, getting furious when they get a bad mark because AI got it wrong.
If they’re really going to create that brain-extension chip AI stuff which is like turning humans into cyborgs—they’d really have to be more careful. I remember hearing a saying somewhere, though I can't place it: 'For the sake of peace we've created a weapon of war, for the sake of ease our hardship grows, and for love of power we've made our doom.
I guess what we're seeing now is only the beginning. I just hope there are more wise people out there than those focused on building this potential 'nuclear bomb' of a technology. As long as there’s nothing wrong with our natural brains, we’ll still be able to think, but the divide between the wise and the foolish is definitely going to get a lot wider in that scenario.
Nothing is inherently bad to use—it’s the what, how, and when that determines the outcome. I’m not really in support of the brainchip-AI thing because it could make some people even more stupid(and it looks like some brains will get fried to create it if they haven't succeeded), but if someone is already wise , it could lead to a more....(Anything can happen, damn the topic is complicated yet interesting.)
Trump announced it and chips are already planted into humans. These chips are instead of a wallet or debit card. The brain chip is also to control people and make them behave bot different than the c19 jab and 5G and Trump goes for 6 G. Well, they better hurry and start improving 3 and 4 first.
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Wow, that's a lot, I guess I'm missing out on a lot of information cos I rarely check news.
3 and 4 really does need update and now I'm curious what will be 7G talkless the next(I guess, normal humans will begin to reduce whatever it might be )
If you ask me it is better to skip the news. It gives more peace of mind.
5G and higher will be to steer the mind of people from a distance (behaviour).
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In as much as AI is here to assist us i still feel people find it hard to think this days, I recently heard this from someone who said he saw a medical doctor asking chatGpt for prescriptions and ideas. It just tells you the era we live in, and how bad people abuse Ai. Critical thinking is very important when it comes to exercising our brain, but when we allow ChatGPT do all the work we tend to forget things a lot which is very bad.
I think it is completely inappropriate for a doctor to ask AI for advice; that is not the intention. It is also absolutely not the same as digging information out of your memory and recalling that there was an article in one of the recently published medical journals for doctors about a particular medical problem and possible solutions to it. I know that my father and I often spent whole weekends ploughing through medical journals and looking up specific information. We kept up to date with new developments, which we would then read through and compile.
These days, doctors in the Netherlands have barely any knowledge of medicines. A representative from the pharmaceutical company tells them what to prescribe, and for that, the doctor naturally receives a hefty bonus at the end of the year. This clearly shows once again that Big Pharma rules, and this has been going on for decades. Doctors here now also have an app where, as a patient, you have to register online to make an appointment, but first you have to list everything you’ve done yourself to resolve the medical problem. I don’t think this is even feasible for a great many people. People can’t think things through, let alone clearly describe whether they’re in pain, or what that pain feels like, is it a throbbing, pulling or stabbing sensation? These are all clues you need to be able to make a diagnosis. I can still remember how, during the Covid-19 lockdown, doctors suddenly went online, or rather, were forced to, and how many of them said it was impossible to make a diagnosis online. Nowadays, with so many doing it, it suddenly doesn’t matter that physical examination is no longer possible, that the camera’s lighting can give a misleading picture, and that blood pressure cannot be measured or the heart and lungs listened to. If online is the doctor of the future, then the doctor can be cut from the budget. They will then be superfluous.
I think that young people in particular have already forgotten a great deal, simply because you have to be mindful of certain substances and actions, and they were never taught this.
Ahahhahah so that means pharmaceutical companies dont get any penny from the bonus ?
Doing diagnosis online doesn’t really make sense in most cases, and it shouldn’t be the standard except when the issue is a minor one. To me a proper physical examination is very important.
Here, not all hospitals offer online appointments. Most times, you have to show up in person. They check your vitals first, then you see a doctor, and after that, they may book another appointment for you.
In Nigeria, so many doctors are leaving the country, and nurses too. 😪
I even have an uncle who moved to London he hasn’t been back in decades.
The health sector in my country is in a state of emergency. We have everything it takes to be great, but bad leadership and corruption keep damaging the system. And when those in power have medical issues, they travel abroad for proper care.
Honestly, living here means you have to be extra careful with your health every single day because of how weak the system is. It’s almost like a survival skill you’re forced to learn.
Well, with us it is already normal by now to have a consult online. The father of a friend receives chemo therapy at home. Contact with doctors is true video calls.
Pharmaceutical industry earns, the salesman does, the doctor and vet receive a bonus, the health insurances earn as well and decide the percentage you have to pay yourself (in most cases A brands 100%) and the pharmacy earns as well and the bill is paid by the patient.
Good doctors are rare. We better start to save for our own medical robot.
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But if I may ask, is it because there is a shortage of medical personnel’s or it’s just a new system abducted by doctors to make work easier for everyone, because I will be honest with you online consultation doesn’t make any sense, I also find it surprising your fiends father had a chemotherapy at home.
Well I may be wrong, maybe it’s a good initiative that I haven’t experienced because we are still using the old school method here. 🤓
Our world is going more digital everyday, a time will come where we will be talking to robots as our consultants. 😝
There's no lack of doctors or medical people. It is the new modern way, a way to keep the few hospitals empty. You get in and preferably out on the same or next day. If the next day the same bed is sold to a new patient. We don't have many hospitals left. It's a long distance. The hospitals are no longer part of the state businesses and what they want is to earn.
Those home treatments and videocalls and the apps used are left from the COVID time and lockdowns. Back then all doctors said it was ridiculous and today they join the circus. And why not? Many only "work" part-time. Their job is by far not that heavy and complete as it was 20 or 50 years, let alone longer ago.
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This post is epic and completely matches my position on the matter! I'm so glad there are still people who think this way. Because those people are becoming fewer and fewer. I don't know how AI manages to charm people and make them fall for it, or infect them like some kind of pandemic, or take over them. This turns out to be something that one should not touch, because then somehow, imperceptibly, quickly or slowly, one will be entangled in webs from which one will not be able to escape.
I recently read a post from an acquaintance on Facebook in which she said, "I don't know how I lived before, without being able to write to an AI for advice on every little detail in my life?" And since I know that this young woman is otherwise intelligent and sensible, this statement struck me as frightening.
And I think that's exactly the goal - to unlearn people to think, because, as you say, the brain needs to be trained. Years ago, when there were no cell phones, just like there was no Facebook, my head was full of numbers - I remembered so many phone numbers, dates of birth and so on. Now those numbers have been erased from there, because they don't need to be remembered anymore. Even that seems ominous to me, to say the least. "As technology advances, life becomes simpler for people." No, people's brains become simpler. Until finally, someone or something conquers and subjugates them, because only simplified people can be easily conquered, subjugated, and led. At least people in a country like Bulgaria can easily tell what kind of policy of simplifying the population is being pursued here, so that it can be easily controlled. AI is the more sophisticated way of doing this, the more intelligent. But it will be even more destructive as well.
I could only guess at the answer, but if you ask me, AI fills precisely that gap in the market known as ‘stupidity’. And not just stupidity, but loneliness too, and both are, of course, fuelled by schools, the media and social media. It is a fact that the youth of the future are becoming increasingly stupid and that today’s youth are being raised by AI, and that is precisely the intention. Any delusion or falsehood can be proclaimed as the truth by AI.
I find it strange when someone who has used AI to write something – an exam or a thesis – gets angry when it turns out to be all wrong. They’ve been cheating, they haven’t done any of the work themselves, and then they get angry at a tool which, when used, is explicitly stated not to be perfect and capable of making mistakes.
Was it the intention of AI to be used in this way? I don’t think so; at the very least, you would expect intelligent people, if they were to use it, to carry out further research and also verify what is being communicated. As for people who are incapable and have little sense themselves, it actually surprises me that they are able to use AI at all, and most of them were able to do so long before I had even heard of it – which does say something. What this sort of person – and I call them stupid, though others might call them lazy – fails to do is ask specific questions, check what the AI spouts, and ask for sources and dates. That is not unimportant either.
I find it baffling that teachers go along with this and even say it is difficult to stop pupils from using it. It is perfectly possible to check whether pupils and students are using AI. Simply set tests, have them write essays in class without phones, of course. I also think that teachers should know their pupils well enough to tell if they have cheated and haven’t written something themselves.
Incidentally, the latest consultation on the merger of our municipality with another was also set up by AI. The questions and the reasoning as to why this would be a good thing. Those arguments alone spoke volumes.
I find it sad that there are so few people left who use their common sense, let alone train it. In any case, this means that the number of people to talk to is decreasing significantly, and so the question is: who will we turn to, those people who do want to have a proper conversation? Will that be AI too?
I don’t think that’s an option for me, because AI manages to irritate me immensely in a very short time, and I get bored quickly too. Incidentally, I haven’t tried that code yet to make AI think more deeply or stop pandering to me.
I sincerely hope that its use will decline and that people will become a bit more intelligent again. If the future unfolds as the Rijkaards envisage it, without electricity and without the internet for everyone, then this will certainly happen, because then access to AI – and probably even education – will no longer be available to the average population.
I agree with you. It is better to stay as far away from it as possible. The fact that an acquaintance of yours tells you she uses it daily to talk to is, in itself, very sad. It speaks of great loneliness and a conversation partner at a certain level, whatever that level may be.
So the big question is: how can this form of loneliness be broken? You certainly won’t pick up social skills by interacting with AI, nor will you have arguments, or a healthy debate, for that matter.
Take what you can use and leave the rest....
I believe that is what most do and the reason why their brains aren't trained.
I wonder if this will also cause early dementia.
It's a practical slogan of people getting free from addictions...
Aku melihat banyak unggahan di Facebook menggunakan IA dan aku terkadang hampir tertipu, tapi aku tidak tahu cara menggunakan IA dan aku tidak tertarik sama sekali, aku menganggap itu semua adalah palsu
Memang benar, kita semakin sering melihat konten AI di YouTube. Suara-suara yang menjengkelkan atau orang-orang yang mulai berbicara seperti robot. Mungkin cara bicara seperti itu memang cocok dengan sel-sel otak mereka yang mati, karena memang begitu adanya. Bagaimanapun, hal itu sangat mudah dikenali; tidak ada sedikit pun kemanusiaan di dalamnya, dan memang AI selalu setuju dengan apa pun yang Anda katakan serta jelas-jelas diprogram untuk tidak bisa mendiskusikan suatu hal secara objektif. Informasi yang dipelajarinya berasal dari sejumlah teks yang terbatas, terutama teks-teks Amerika atau yang disesuaikan dengan pola pikir Amerika, dan hal ini sangat mengganggu bagi saya. Bagi saya, menggunakan penerjemah sudah cukup sebagai AI, dan saya secara otomatis melewati hasil pertama di mesin pencari karena itu selalu jawaban dari AI. Saya juga melihat bahwa toko online sudah mulai menggunakan AI untuk merangkum ulasan. Dan semua ulasan itu pasti tidak ditulis oleh manusia.
Ya memang benar yang anda katakan temanku
Exactly, we have instinct, however, with how things are going, I don't think this will help us. More and more people are losing their jobs, it's a topic that makes me work harder, can you imagine, ME working more hahaha
No, I find it hard to believe you have time to work more and harder. Did you give up on the gym or your sleep?
With us there are all of a sudden, afterany years, plenty of jobs just no people who like to work and are committed. They already give up after showing up once or twice.