Outsourced Thinking: AI Users and Critics Clash Over Whether AI Erodes Your Brain
Linahuaa · x · 2026-09-25
Responding to the claim that outsourcing thinking to AI 'poisons your brain,' the author argues the tool isn't the problem: good users treat AI as a second opinion, routinely push back on its hallucinations, and use it to surface blind spots.
They add that ideologically anti-AI users on Meta Threads will be left behind, citing a classmate's father—an East German math competition winner who dismissed computer science as useless, studied Arabic instead, and now drives a taxi as a cautionary tale about rejecting new technology.
The quoted original post countered that constantly outsourcing thought to robots annihilates common sense.
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