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Exercising your mind: as others have said, reading even fiction books for long periods of time, helps with attention span. Also, when you have an impulse to use ChatGPT to ask a question or how to do something or what to do, try think of your own answers first, and then ask. Or, what I like to do, is ask questions on how to pick the right answer, so it’s more like research. For example, I needed to replace my GFCI outlet that tripped. Asking why, how it works, what causes issues, allows me to have a more intimate experience of life than just replacing the outlet and hoping for the best next time.

I think it’s really good for learning, as a co-tutor, but if you are offloading all of your thinking and not remembering anything you’ve discussed, it’s time to take some breaks (like I do no digital Sundays) so that way you are more focused and aware when you do use ChatGPT again.

Hope that helps

I was gonna say, this sounds like a lot of SaaS I’ve supported

I think the comparison is that both fields are often misunderstood through oversimplified descriptions. “Astrology is just Sun signs” and “LLMs are just stochastic parrots” are both reductionist summaries that leave out a lot of the interesting discussion. Whether either ultimately succeeds at what it claims is a separate question.

As for astrology itself, I became interested through Carl Jung, who viewed astrology as a symbolic system that reflected recurring psychological patterns and wrote about it in relation to archetypes and synchronicity ( Man and his symbols .) Astrology provides a symbolic language for thinking about cycles, temperament, motivation, and meaning.

Astrology is a millennia-old discipline built from the systematic observation of planet and star cycles and their perceived correspondence with earthly events. It developed alongside astronomy, mathematics, calendrical science, agriculture, medicine, and political forecasting across several civilizations. You don’t have to accept its interpretive claims, but reducing it to newspaper Sun signs is a bit like reducing literature to a fortune cookie

Thousands of years of research into a short interpretation

Man I swear, AI is like astrology, people have strong opinions about it but haven’t done any research into what it actually is. So much more nuanced than ‘AI bad!’

Use AI to augment learning, not replace learning. Also most people hate AI slop, not AI.

You have to prompt for that, I do that regularly along with refactors. ‘Examine all tests to ensure they are testing functionality and not just passing a test.’ It finds them and will work on it. I think the problem continues to be engineering discipline. People are lazy with AI on multiple levels, not just copy pasta slop.