I'm astonished just how quickly LLMs have eroded critical thinking, perhaps exposing my own biases and assumptions about just how much I believed or understood others critically evaluated and critically judged something.

I also wonder how much of the population is truly introspective. Maybe that's some of the root cause here?

I am deeply, deeply concerned that LLMs are creating a generation... no... zombifying several successive existing generations into intellectually-devoid vassals completely unable to think for themselves, or approach novel and difficult problems without hallucinated assistance.

I'm also astonished, maybe I shouldn't be at this point, how a significant portion of people I know - some of them I would have expected to know better - don't realise that an LLM is a statistical word generator that is in no way equitable to the intelligence of a human being.

Then again, human intelligence exists on a bell curve; I really start to wonder exactly where the peak of that curve actually lies...

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