
<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Yeah, “use it or lose it” is definitely the watch phrase of the day.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Btw, from an accessibility standpoint, AI isn’t all that accessible, nor is it particularly inexpensive. Also, AI has a fair number of issues, including hallucinating “facts” and is already barred from being used in court documents and court procedures.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Btw, I remember when critical thinking was encouraged in high school (mind you, this was the early 1980’s). Since then, I have seen education devolve to the lowest common denominator. Sad too see and that is one of the items that is contributing to loss of critical thinking skills.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So, where does this leave those of us who still can exercise these skills? Well, there are many answers, only it’s rather difficult to determine which one is the most correct.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Eric</div><div class="">From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Strategic Mentality Dept.</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 21, 2025, at 8:59 AM, Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" class="">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">The statement "Use it or lose it" has been around for as long as I can remember.</div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM greg zegan via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" class="">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class=""><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><a href="https://futurism.com/study-ai-critical-thinking" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="">Study Finds That People Who Entrust Tasks to AI Are Losing Critical Thinking Skills</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div id="m_8810338340909002691ydp6bff5acbenhancr_card_9862536922" style="max-width:400px;font-family:"YahooSans VF",YahooSans,"OpenSans VF",OpenSans,"Helvetica Neue","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif" class=""><a href="https://futurism.com/study-ai-critical-thinking" style="text-decoration: none;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class=""><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="max-width:400px" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td width="400" class=""><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="max-width:400px;border-width:1px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(224,228,233);border-radius:2px" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td bgcolor="#000000" valign="top" height="175" style="background-color:rgb(0,0,0);background-repeat:no-repeat;background-size:cover;border-radius:2px 2px 0px 0px;min-height:175px" class=""><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width:100%" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td bgcolor="transparent" valign="top" style="background-color:transparent;border-radius:2px 2px 0px 0px;min-height:175px" class=""><table border="0" height="175" style="width:100%;min-height:175px" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td style="text-align:left;padding:15px 0px 0px 15px;vertical-align:top" class=""></td><td style="text-align:right;padding:15px 15px 0px 0px;vertical-align:top" class=""><div class=""></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr class=""><td class=""><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background:rgb(255,255,255);width:100%;max-width:400px;border-radius:0px 0px 2px 2px;border-top:1px solid rgb(224,228,233)" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);padding:16px 0px 16px 12px;vertical-align:top;border-radius:0px 0px 0px 2px" class=""></td><td style="vertical-align:middle;padding:12px 24px 16px 12px;width:99%;font-family:"YahooSans VF",YahooSans,"OpenSans VF",OpenSans,"Helvetica Neue","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;border-radius:0px 0px 2px" class=""><h2 style="font-size:14px;line-height:19px;margin:0px 0px 6px;font-family:"YahooSans VF",YahooSans,"OpenSans VF",OpenSans,"Helvetica Neue","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,34,40);max-width:314px" class="">Study Finds That People Who Entrust Tasks to AI Are Losing Critical Thin...</h2><div style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; color: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