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AI will make our children stupid

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65 points binning | 1 comments | 20 Dec 25 19:24 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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xnx ◴[20 Dec 25 19:50 UTC] No.46338971[source]▶
AI will be a super-tutor for the curious and a tool to outsource all thinking for the incurious.
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WhyOhWhyQ ◴[20 Dec 25 19:51 UTC] No.46338983[source]▶
The job doesn't pay you to be curious. It pays you to get stuff done. Curiosity makes you jobless. Most of the Silcon Valley people who frequent this website larp as curious people, but are basically incurious status seekers.
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fn-mote ◴[20 Dec 25 20:12 UTC] No.46339182[source]▶
> The job doesn't pay you to be curious.

YOUR job doesn’t pay you to be curious.

Well, you could say mine doesn’t either, literally, but the only reason I am in this role, and the driving force behind my major accomplishments in the last 10 years, has been my curiosity. It led me to do things nobody in my area had the (ability|foolishness) to do, and then it led me to develop enough improvements that things work really well now.

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1. agumonkey ◴[20 Dec 25 20:24 UTC] No.46339313{3}[source]▶
I'd be curious if jobs like yours are not on the tail side of the distribution. It's very common that in work groups, curiosity / creativity gets ignored if not punished. I've seen this even in small techies groups, there was a natural emergence of boundaries in which people don't get to think beyond (you're overstepping, that's not your role, you're doing too much). It seems a pavlovian reflex when leadership doesn't know how to operate without assigning roles.