A revealing account of how using LLMs to do the thinking for you is not actual thinking but a sub-cognitive shortcut.
My thinking systems have atrophied, and I can feel it–I can sense my slightly diminishing intuition, cleverness, and rigor.
LLMs give me finished thoughts, polished and convincing, but none of the intellectual growth that comes from developing them myself.
A modern day paradox: You can have all the thoughts you want but none of them will be worth anything.
