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346 points c1ccccc1 | 1 comments | 11 Apr 25 05:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.215s | source
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profsummergig ◴[11 Apr 25 06:21 UTC] No.43651005[source]▶
Requesting someone to please explain the "coquina" metaphor.
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ern ◴[11 Apr 25 07:16 UTC] No.43651280[source]▶
Maybe I’m not smart enough, or too tired to decode these metaphors, so I plugged the essay into ChatGPT and got a clear explanation from 4o.
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criddell ◴[11 Apr 25 10:55 UTC] No.43652491[source]▶
Are you at all concerned that plugging stuff like this into ChatGPT is leaving you with weaker cognitive muscles? Or is it more similar to what people do when they see a new word and reach for their dictionary?
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adwn ◴[11 Apr 25 11:55 UTC] No.43652812[source]▶
> Are you at all concerned that plugging stuff like this into ChatGPT is leaving you with weaker cognitive muscles?

Couldn't this very same argument have been used against any form of mental augmentation, like written language and computers? Or, in an extended interpretation, against any form of physical augmentation, like tool use?

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1. TimorousBestie ◴[11 Apr 25 14:25 UTC] No.43654152[source]▶
In fact it has been, dating all the way back to Phaedrus.

> If men learn [writing], it will implant forgetfulness in their souls. They will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks.