An Unlikely Team Tackles AI Brain Rot

There's a new AI paper that's making waves. It's called Large language models as a cognitive virus. Now it's drawing attention in large part because of Who the authors of the paper actually are. It's not technologist. And it's not social scientists, it's actually a group of applied mathematicians.

Largely from the fields of biophysics and complexity theory. And if those sound familiar, it's because that's the same group of fields that included the Ian Malcolm character. From Jurassic Park. Now what they do in this paper is they they set out to model Mathematically, the spread of LLMs through our culture as well as the impact of LLMs on our ability to think.

Using something known as a nonlinear dynamical system. Now, if you don't know what that means, you're in good company. Most people who tried to read this paper didn't know what that meant either. But I want to look closer at it with you today and explain what's really going on, because when you get through all the complex mathematics, what you find Is actually an Elegant identification. Of the three primary interventions that us as a culture have available right now to prevent our brains from becoming completely dependent.

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