Like the old joke about alcohol not "turning" someone into a jerk, but instead revealing the jerk that's been hiding all along, I think the same is true for the idea that LLMs are "turning" people into overconfident morons. I don't believe these people are being changed, I think it's how they always were, and now it's easier to see.
Yes that is probably a better way of putting it. We are all overconfident morons until we learn things. Now society has subtracted knowledge share and gain from the equation.
[−]throw-the-towel · 2026-10-10 Sat 20:38 UTC ·
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Eh, but so what? Even if everyone really was a jerk, something holding them back from revealing it was still valuable.