Outsourcing our cognitive processes

Learning takes effort.  LLMs remove the effort to get answers/results.  It’s efficient to solve the immediate problem but removes the beneficial side effect, I.e, learning.  How to stay smart is going to be a big challenge.

Specialists in education and cognition have been studying critical thinking and how to develop it for years, and some have useful tips on how to stay cognitively sharp in the age of AI.

research does not yet show clearly what impact generative AI is having on learning and critical thinking. This is because AI tools are relatively new and varied, the studies so far are conflicting, and too few rigorous or long-term studies have been done.  

The illusion of understanding 

Information found online or supplied by generative AI might actually leave people with the illusion that they understand things. One 2023 study found that people who searched online were more confident in their ability to provide explanations for questions — such as why there are leap years or how zippers work — than were people who read information but did not search. But when asked to actually explain the concepts, those in the search group were less accurate

Medicare for all is the best option

Current bills aimed at correcting health insurance issues

are analyzed deeply wrt the specific issues that they might correct, and how they address fundamental issues with incentives 

M4A is superior on all metrics 

Dimension	Three bills	Full AELP agenda	Medicare for All

Extraction / self-dealing rents	Eliminated at source (separation)	Eliminated + enforced	Payer-side removed; provider/pharma persist
Drug & provider prices	~7% drug cut from pharmacy divestiture	Medicare-rate caps system-wide; patent-abuse bans	Monopsony price-setting system-wide
Denial-driven cost & harm	No change ($36B UM tax remains)	UM ban trims it; enforcement-dependent	Profit-motivated denial removed structurally
Risk selection / cost-dumping	No change — pooling untouched	No change; public option itself exposed	Single universal pool eliminates it
Administrative overhead	Marginal	Partial — fragmentation floor remains	Collapses toward 1–4% peer floor
Coverage / uninsured (8%)	No change	Public-option optional	Universal by design
Net fiscal character	Lowers prices; federal outlay ~flat	Large private + public savings; outlay ~flat	Big federal outlay rise; lower totalnational spend in most studies ANALYST