New comment by AlexWilkins12 in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

AlexWilkins12 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:42:47 +0000

Ironically, this article reeks of AI-generated phrases. Lot's of "It's not X, it's Y". eg: - "The failure mode isn't malice. It's convenience", - "You haven't saved time. You've forfeited the experience that the time was supposed to give you." - "But the real threat isn't either of those things. It's quieter, and more boring, and therefore more dangerous. The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."

And indeed running it through a few AI text detectors, like Pangram (not perfect, by any means, but a useful approximation), returns high probabilities.

It would have felt more honest if the author had included a disclaimer that it was at least part written with AI, especially given its length and subject matter.

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