HN 提问：我们正在变笨吗？
1 分•作者: lyfeninja•3 个月前
我有一位非常成功的亲戚，我非常信任他，他一直是我学习的榜样。我一直相信他的判断，到目前为止，他从未让我走错路。最近我与他进行了一次关于各种事情的谈话。在谈话中，我基本上问了什么区分了成功与失败（这是一个开放式的、涵盖范围广泛的问题），他的回答是“批判性思维能力”。
这似乎是一个简单的答案，但我一直以来也有同感。我最不能容忍的一些事情是，人们不加解释地接受结果，将事情仅仅归结为巧合而不深入挖掘，或者将思考的负担推给别人。
考虑到人工智能的快速发展及其作为拐杖的能力，以及充斥网络的错误信息和虚假信息，还有人们仅仅满足于最简单的答案而不质疑或深入思考得出该答案的方法论，或者它是否真实，我们是不是正在变得越来越笨？
这是一个诚实但有些令人担忧的问题，我只是好奇其他人怎么想。我们被教导，只要我们相信科学方法和其他经验主义哲学，我们就会随着时间的推移变得越来越聪明，但那些日子是否已经一去不复返了？对科学、真正的专家以及我们所看到的一切的不信任，会产生深远的负面影响，我猜我只是有些担心。我不想生活在《蠢蛋进化论》（我指的是那部电影，如果你不知道我在说什么，可以看看，哈哈）的世界里，但我觉得我们已经身处其中了……
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I have a very accomplished relative who I trust a lot and has been a role model for me. I've always trusted their judgement and they've never steered me wrong to date. I was recently having a conversation with them about sort of everything. During the conversation I essentially asked what separates success from failure (it was an open ended across the board kind of question) and their response was "critical thinking skills".<p>Seems like I simple answer, but I've also always felt the same way. Some of my biggest pet peeves are people just accepting outcomes without explanation, writing off things as merely coincidence without digging deeper, or offloading the burden of thinking to someone else.<p>Given the rapid pace of AI and it's ability to be a crutch, the misinformation and disinformation that plaques the internet, and people just settling for the simplest answer without questioning or thinking through the methodology to get there or whether or not it's true, ARE WE GETTING DUMBER?<p>It's an honest but kind of scary question and I'm just curious what others think. We're taught we'll only get smarter with time as long as we trust the scientific method and other empirical philosophies, but are those days behind us? Distrust in science, true experts, and everything that we see, has a profound negative effect and I guess I just worry. I don't want to live in the world of Idiocracy (I'm thinking of the movie, watch it if you don't know what I'm talking about lol) but I feel like we're there already...