And the ability to think critically to detect it declines. So it’s doubly harmful!

That sounds a lot like what the studies show. And IMO that sounds like a serious problem.

You are disregarding the last paragraph, where 2 other studies showed similar results, without having the “disruptive” factor.

A calculator is not the same problem, it doesn’t reduce our general ability to think critically.

and people got worse at mental calculus when calculators when invented.

That may be true, but that is a much more limited problem, than losing some of our ability for critical thinking and problem solving in general.

ai, meanwhile, or at least the ai we’re sold, does not offer significant advantages

This is very true, the AI are shown to even hallucinate, and give incorrect and harmful solutions. A calculator does NOT do that.
So not only is the AI a danger to our critical thinking, we actually need it MORE when using AI.

No the test is not training, that’s a weird thing to claim. The switch is what is tested, and you disregard that 2 other tests have shown similar results. An actual decline in critical and problem solving thinking.

You clearly didn’t read the article, and you are dead wrong.
Except you are right that if you let the AI do everything, it’s worse, and you lose a lot of ability for critical thinking.
The last paragraph of the article even shows that other studies have shown that using AI assistance over time, will even have long term effect of lowering problem solving abilities!!

Personally I try not to use it at all, not a fan of all the problems that come with it.

This is the way. 😀

According to a new study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Oxford, and UCLA,

Study should be solid I guess.

participants who were given AI assistants (in this case, a chatbot powered by OpenAI’s GPT-5 model) would have the aid pulled from them without warning during the test

Wow, interesting idea. 👍

where they had their assistant removed, the AI group saw the solve rate fall off a cliff. They had a solve rate about 20% lower

And even worse IMO:

They also had nearly double the skip rate, meaning they simply chose not to solve the questions.

This seems very alarming IMO, because this indicates they lost some of their ability to think constructively on how to actually solve a problem!

I know there have always been some who cried wold every time new technology has become available, like calculators and computers. Even dictionaries were once claimed to be harmful once!
But maybe this time there is a real danger, because AI takes away a lot of the need to actually think creatively and constructively. And that’s an ability we must not lose.

The last paragraph of the article is even worse. As it mentions 2 studies that show these effects are also long term!!!

The limit of speed of light is a property of space-time, not a property of light.
Another way to understand it is that it is the maximum speed of causality. The limit doesn’t go only for light, but for instance also for gravity, which AFAIK is also proven by the measurement of gravitational waves.
The reason only light can achieve this speed is that it is massless. Because if light had mass, it would have infinite energy, and take infinite energy to achieve the speed of light.
There are numerous explanations for how 2 objects moving at the speed of light still only approach each other at the speed of light.
Take a look at Youtube, there are many good videos explaining relativity in general and speed of light in particular.

It’s OK, it will take at least another generation before the planet is unlivable.

As Einstein said, time is relative. But that only means it is relative to different circumstances.
Moving at light speed time stands still, and the theory is that inside a black hole time also stands still.
So being at a stationary position in non gravity space is the fastest time will go.
But lets make it simple, and consider weather time is a constant on earth, at least within a margin we are not able to perceive.
And to that question the answer is that yes time is constants, because changes in the speed of time are universal and affect everything equally.
Meaning that the relative time we perceive is constant.

BUT on the other hand, time is different to a satellite that orbits the earth, because the faster movement slows down time, but the lower gravity accelerates it. Which makes it necessary for GPS satellites to compensate for that to make accurate positions possible.
Anecdotally the GPS system was originally financed and implemented by the US military. And the generals did not believe this, so they claimed the system to compensate was unnecessary, which of course it turned out the scientists were right, so they had implemented the system to compensate anyway, and could turn it on, when they had proved to the generals that it indeed was necessary.

https://www.gpsworld.com/inside-the-box-gps-and-relativity/

The net effect: A GPS satellite clock will gain about 38 microseconds per day over a clock at rest at mean sea level.

If time was faster or slower, you wouldn’t notice anything. Because time is an expression of causality, and if causality is either faster or slower, it would go for everything, including you, your phone, your watch and everything else.
If time was slower or faster, there would be no way to detect it.

But we do have an inner clock, and that clock slows down as we age, making things feel/seem faster.
Many animals have way more accurate inner clocks than humans, for instance cats can tell the time of day very accurately, and are known to have daily routines on the clock, also disregarding sunlight and owner behavior.
Most animals also have a way more accurate perception of speed of events, and will often seem to react only in the last second, but will very rarely fail. This can be seen with for instance pigeons in traffic. That will only move at the last moment when cars or scooters or bicycles approach.

So whatever number of seconds it takes a person to count Mississippis or run 100 meter, is purely subjective, and in no way a reliable measure of time.

I specifically remember counting chunks of time as long as 15 minutes and not being off by a minute.

I can almost guarantee that memory is not accurate. the human inner watch is simply not that accurate, even with tricks to aid it.
I personally have a somewhat similar memory, of being able to tell the clock very accurately by the position of the sun. But the truth is I probably tricked myself, and when I got it wrong I discarded it, and only remembered the accurate ones. Classic confirmation bias, that we should all be aware of that we are all victims to now and then.

Apparently you fail to get the point. That cable is just a different means to receive similar content. And that different laws for either are nonsensical.

I never understood the idea of calling it cable news?
Radio/TV antenna, Satellite and Cable, are merely different ways of distribution of similar content.
It would be the same as distinguishing papers on weather they are delivered by mail or kiosks.

Now everything is through Internet, so it’s even more stupid to separate between them.
I know that it used to be that somethings were legal on cable news that weren’t on over the air channels. Which again is also super moronic, and mostly due to childish regulation mostly based on Christian pearl clutching, where seeing a naked person is prohibited, but seeing brutal murders are not, but using a swear word while doing the killing is not?

Well Luckily the influence from USA is diminishing, so hopefully we will have less of such inconsistent idiotic double standards in the future.

It seems the rich simply don’t understand that their wealth is only made possible because the masses allow it. And that insane wealth is an imbalance in society that needs to be fixed, both because it is socially unjust, but also because it is undermining democracy.

Also the rich are are leeches on society, that leech hundreds of times more than they need. Very different from an unemployed or sick or single mom that only get the help they actually need to scrape by.

The sense of entitlement among the rich is insane, as in literally insane and disconnected from reality.

That would make sense, I couldn’t read the article because it’s behind a paywall.

They could have worked with Europe instead, Europe is in a similar situation India is.

those are the two powers that exist on the planet.

Then those 2 powers would be USA and China. Russia is not 1 of them. And EU would be a way better partner to India, for instance if they joined SAFE.

Good catch. 😀👍
Had I seen them available at that price, I would definitely have bought a couple.

That’s a wise decision India, because Russia is such a reliable partner, and they have very high quality military products. 🤣🤣🤣

IDK if it’s some kind of joke, I had to look up what a reamer is.
But that’s actually a cool name.