The neuroscience case for never delegating judgment to AI
thewhyman007 · reddit · 2026-10-02
A Reddit essay argues you should delegate search, drafts, and the first ten wrong answers to AI — but never the deciding. Drawing on Damasio's somatic marker hypothesis and the Iowa Gambling Task, the author frames gut feeling as "reasoning without a transcript": nonconscious pattern-matching over a lifetime of context, self-reported at 90%+ accuracy. Models can ingest what you can articulate, but not what you lived through and never wrote down — which is where that accuracy lives.
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