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cognitive amplifier
It literally is proven to cause cognitive atrophy. It doesn't amplify it replaces and atrophies with worse 'thinking'.
this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2026
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Marx could have never predicted this! Wait, what's this...
In handicrafts and manufacture, the workman makes use of a tool; in the factory, the machine makes use of him. There the movements of the instrument of labour proceed from him, here it is the movements of the machine that he must follow. In manufacture the workmen are parts of a living mechanism. In the factory we have a lifeless mechanism independent of the workman, who becomes its mere living appendage.
Capital, Chapter 15
In machinery, objectified labour confronts living labour within the labour process itself as the power which rules it... It is the machine which possesses skill and strength in place of the worker, is itself the virtuoso, with a soul of its own in the mechanical laws acting through it
The special skill of each individual insignificant factory operative vanishes as an infinitesimal quantity before the science, the gigantic physical forces, and the mass of labour that are embodied in the factory mechanism
automatic system of machinery... set in motion by an automaton... this automaton consisting of numerous mechanical and intellectual organs, so that the workers themselves are cast merely as its conscious linkages.
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When you amplify a wave, for each high peak you get a low trough 
Hey Microsoft CEO why don't you cognitively amplify my cock instead.
IF IT WERE A COGNITIVE AMPLIFIER THAT ACTUALLY IMPROVED ANYTHING THEN WE WOULD USE IT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
He did at least provide one real example of what he means by all this: "When a doctor can … spend more time with the patient, because the AI is doing the transcription and entering the records in the EMR system, entering the right billing code so that the healthcare industry is better served across the payer, the provider, and the patient, ultimately—that's an outcome that I think all of us can benefit from."
Can’t wait for AI to digitally hallucinate an extra zero into the mg dosage for my prescription!
AI is quickly becoming the poster child for a larger “problem” with the tech industry writ large, which is that we don’t really need more “progress.” Desktop OS’s pretty much peaked in the late aughts/early teens and it’s just been bloat, digital party tricks and built-in spyware. Mobile OS’es are just about there as well, just look at the negative reaction to the iOS “glass” feature. Smart devices themselves are overpowered for most use cases, and the new ones are mostly sold on “the camera is slightly nicer.” Calling a game “AAA” is used more as an insult. We don’t need “more” but the line on chart must go up so they keep pushing shit like this to manufacture artificial booms.
entering the right billing code so that the healthcare industry is better served across the payer, the provider, and the patient, ultimately
Copilot is already integrated into our invoicing system at work, I clicked on the autofill button for a laugh and fabricated invoice numbers and purchase codes. Even his 'real world' example is patently ludicrous
If you've ever used Zoom AI transcription, that shit does not work well enough to trust without someone having to go back and fix it later anyway.
there was good anti-AI snark in the latest episode of The Pit where the new-temp leader was "demonstrating" how the AI app saves charting time by actively transcribing the long patient conversation into notes, and all the med students were like "whoa" because charting does take a bunch of time.
and then one doctor, not the leading doctor who should be verifying it (but wasn't), immediately caught that the machine logged one medication as a completely different one. a med student hits the snark: "AI... Almost Intelligent", so the administrator covers by saying, "and you should all thoroughly review the notes" but the beat is just enough to make it everyone suspicious. because obviously the value proposition is letting it do the notes because a metro ER is a chaotic series of emergencies, so are you really going to come back and review your those now extremely verbose notes for accuracy after a bunch of crazy shit has happened? are you going to catch the fuck ups?
i like that show. the messaging isn't offensive, the war between competent workers and two faced administration and austerity politics is constant, and the scenes are always moving fast. it's basically an anxiety fabricator and i have an addiction to that sort of media. also, the concept of each hour unfolding in real time over a 12+ hour shift (12 hour season) is intense. it's nice to be able to step back, but it makes it all the more crushing to know that people in these sorts of roles are just having to roll with it.
Please find a actual problem that our insanely resource wasting solution can solve, we're running out of fictional ones!
Right now "AI" is devastating to my so-called career, but I think in one to two years' time I'll have better job prospects cleaning up the mess that LLMs left behind during these few crazed years
same.. been out of a job since october because the company i was at did a 40% layoff thinking AI was going to handle everything going forward. last i heard they're not doing very well at all.
but it has also made job hunting a real bitch too. i dont even get interviews anymore. im pretty sure im being filtered out by AI before anyone even sees my resume
My worry is that we are going to learn nothing and the future will be oh you complain an awfull lot about problem caused by AI why don't you take AI and redo it from scratch. And it's just won't get better.
If AI shuts down i'll miss being able to ask it what sides i should serve with a thing but i'll get over it since googling that will yield websites i could simply read to be exposed to the same options
googling that will yield websites i could simply read to be exposed to the same options
Given the quality of google results the past few years, I'm not totally sure about that :/
It's fine i'll just type "what sides to serve with ghanaian okra stew reddit" again
Lose? When did they have it?
So if I don't use it, it'll go away?
Huh.
continues stripping it out of everything possible
Program an army of autonomous AI suicide drones with the faces, behaviors, and frequent locations of all tech executives and then something something something. You're welcome Satya.
Why not use your oh-so-fucking-useful AI to think of something to use the AI for?
Or is that too on the nose?
“Lose social permission” is just Corportatese for “inciting social ire and consequences” lmao I hate how they talk I’d rather listen to skibidi lingo
my response to every one of his points is, bruh, in this economy?
Stop paywalling the actually useful stuff and instead paywall the template stuff.
If this guy was a Discworld antagonist, he'd be getting got by William DeWord. Pathetic.