Retrieval-based learning is an active thing you gotta keep doing in life. I mean that silly advice you see, "keep doing crossword puzzles for brain health"? That is not actually bullshit. It is very clear that even if you are strongly in the corner of AI tools the most augmenting use cases we see are the ones where people have workflows that continue to center their own generation and active learning. These guys just don't have a working theory of the human mind at all

https://scholar.social/@gedankenstuecke/114388170238230996

It's like how engaging with a lot of social media COULD make you a better reader but could also make you a worse reader. How do you consume? What choices are being made? I personally am very sympathetic to the idea that a lot of work tasks are so hopelessly stupid that even a stupid but sometimes helpful tool that reduces your in the moment fatigue could have a big effect. Big effects don't necessarily mean ideal problem solving tool. Big effect to get a weight taken off your shoulders too

Constantly asking myself lately how much self-monitoring an assisted workflow takes. There are so many contradictory claims out there: AI helps because it lets you think less. No, more! AI helps because you can spend your time on cool work and it will automate the drudgery but wait you have to become a manager of the drudgery in a completely different way that is very vigilant. Idk. I am just frustrated by the lack of rich descriptions of the human experience of it

I don't want to do another AI study but I feel like I gotta 😭