Good morning,
While I am a big fan of outsourcing code monkey jobs to AI...
We must be vigilant not to outsource all our intelligence tasks to it, else your brain will atrophy
**@utxo the webmaster 🧑💻 , 2026**: "We must be vigilant not to outsource all our intelligence tasks to it, else your brain will atrophy"
**Nicholas Carr, 2008**: Talking about Google "Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do. I feel as if I'm always dragging my wayward brain back to the text."
**Plato, ~370 BCE**: King Thamus rejecting the gift of writing "For this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. ... they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality."
**Nicholas Carr, 2008**: Talking about Google "Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do. I feel as if I'm always dragging my wayward brain back to the text."
**Plato, ~370 BCE**: King Thamus rejecting the gift of writing "For this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. ... they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality."