@Grok is this true

search engines been around for a minute unc

No, this is not true. It is actually a polarizing joke or a misunderstanding of how the human brain responds to financial and environmental stress.

The idea likely originated as a provocative quip made by comedian Dave Chappelle, who joked on a PBS News podcast that with the rise of artificial intelligence, "it seems like thinking is for poor people". However, serious research into psychology and economics suggests the exact opposite.

How Poverty Affects "Thinking"

Poverty doesn't mean a person doesn't want to think; rather, it makes thinking harder.

Groundbreaking research by Harvard economist Sendhil Mullainathan and Princeton psychologist Eldar Shafir revealed the "cognitive tax" of scarcity:

Decreased Capacity: Worrying about constant financial constraints drains mental computing power, leaving less brainpower for long-term planning.

Reduced IQ: The mental load of being poor can reduce cognitive performance by the equivalent of 13 IQ points, which is similar to losing an entire night of sleep.

Survival Mode: When people struggle with basic needs, the brain is forced to focus entirely on short-term, immediate problems.

Wealth Changes the Way We Make Decisions

On the other end of the spectrum, wealth provides a "margin of error". A wealthy person can recover quickly from a financial mistake that would cause a major crisis for a lower-income family. Because affluent individuals aren't constantly stressed about immediate survival, they have more mental space and freedom to strategize, invest, and think about long-term growth rather than short-term relief.

Ultimately, thinking is a universal human trait, but financial status dictates what a person is forced to think about. People who never have to struggle with basic needs have the privilege of free will and choice, whereas those in poverty use immense mental effort simply navigating constraints.

Free him

yea i was just thinking about this

everyone wants to believe a.i is a bubble but im afraid major systems are already comfortable using llm’s to build its architecture

sam altman’s vision of “thinking” being a utility expense that people pay for is already there in token and usage limits. we’re actually so much closer to this just being a necessary expense it’s scary for anyone who wants to reject llm’s

if america is the leader, trump has pretty much allowed for unfettered deregulation, enough so that the takeover is imminent

an astute observation from chappelle but it’s gonna be taken as punching down

Dude falling from grace at the speed of a peregrine falcon

If having money made you intelligent then he wouldn’t say that

Probably explains why he’s been stuck on the same material for years

The unconscious machine of capitalism serves the interests of unconscious people like Chappelle

When he brought Elon out on stage and he got booed

i dont think he understands the repricussions of an unstimulated brain for long periods

What’s wrong with the statement? He not putting it in a negative context to s*** on poor people right? Still f*** that nigga

Surprise surprise the same dude who blew up exploiting negative black stereotypes and hate speech is endorsing the use of AI. F*** this scumbag

This sums up one of the biggest problems with AI, people are giving up their ability to think and reliant on the tools.

He literally says it's a joke right after that lol. People itt getting worked up over nothing

I looked this up because I found it hard to believe readership was that high in the 70s and 80s (“back when I grew up”)

“According to historical polling data (e.g., from Pew Research Center and Gallup), the 1970s were characterized by frequent reading. Historic polling reports that only about 8% of Americans claimed to not have read a book at all in 1978, a stark contrast to recent decades which have seen an overall drop in the number of books read per person.”

Crazy

It’s honestly really bad, a lot of my sons peers just can’t read or spell, whenever they come over I have to constantly help them, I was even asked to start a community book club for the kids in the neighborhood after other parents found out my son reads daily

It’s sad

AI is definitely not a bubble, it's going to be a huge part of the future of business, but I also think it's not as capable as a lot of sycophantic CEOs make it out to be, and the framing of its "out of this world" and "frightening" capabilities are also tied to how much these CEOs have invested in it succeeding

I also think the framing that AI is somehow "only for rich people" is wrong, the companies building these models have enormous resources, but access to them is widespread

A person with a phone and an internet connection can use essentially the same AI tools as a billionaire, heavy usage and enterprise-scale usage costs money, but the core capabilities are available to almost everyone

Historically, capitalism has tended to absorb new technologies rather than tolerate permanent mass unemployment, jobs change, industries shift, and the nature of work changes with them, but I don't think this technology will bring mass unemployment, and it's not in the interests of capitalist leeches for people to actually be unemployed

I work in business, and "thinking" being taken out of parts of my job isn't really true, in my experience, the thinking hasn't disappeared but it has changed, the future changes remain to be seen

Where it gets messy is when we move away from business and start talking about things that actually matter, like self-expression and art

Before curbing AI though I'd rather see a society with things like a four-day work week, universal healthcare and robust unions, where people have the time and security to make art because they genuinely care about it, not because they're forced to spend their lives contributing to crap just to pay the bills

Hes been a f***head and a hasbeen for years atp

So the new psyop is accepting ai in exchange for a four day workweek huh

‘universal healthcare and robust unions’ i hope an easily treatable disease gets you

I'm sure this is meant in jest.

At least I hope it is.

I don't know, as Chappelle has been getting older his takes have been getting more and more ass.

Agreed