To add more context I don't follow the smartphone tech news that closely. If you ask me to name a model that was released within the last 12 months from Sony, Xiaomi, OnePlus and some other makers I wouldn't know where to start. Much less about the differences in their behavior between how open their devices are. From cases where you can't even install LineageOS to cases where you can but without locking the bootloader, up to the pixel devices where you can install GrapheneOS with a locked bootloader.
Educating myself on all those nuances to make an informed speculation about which company could be interested based on past policy looked like more effort that I was willing to commit to. Honestly if LLM's weren't an option I m not sure I would have performed a web search for it, given that for specialized topic you need to dive deep in search results to find what you need.
Instead of spending 5-10 minutes searching and evaluating posts on the internet I got an answer in like 20(?) seconds.
I m surprised you classify that issue as recreational thinking. I was a bit reductive of it myself as I just considered it bad curiosity. That's why I used the word speculation. It's one thing to ask ChatGPT how good a research paper that made the news is without even bothering to read the summary and another thing not to want to evaluate other people's speculations. And I am saying this is speculation, since, to the best of my knowledge, the parties involved are not speaking about this. I think that difference in the classification of this task is one of the key parts why we preferred different actions over this "case/scenario".
I disagree with your brain cycles comment but there is indeed some nuance that both my post and "Trump's" example miss.
Mental bandwidth is a thing and is indeed limited. But it's not a static thing. The (not necessarily good) way that I understand it, is like this. It's a muscle that can only do so much at a time. Like a daily budget of mental (or physical) activities. If you use that budget in a good way you can expand it. And if you don't it can decrease. If you try to go over budget, you can also "crush" under the weight of what you are trying to do. For example if I'm playing Starcraft 2 and I am trying to attack in 3 separate places at once I am going to mess things up because I m not that good (unlike the pros). It would have been better if I focused on one location because that's the extent of my capabilities. I can mentally keep track of only so many things while playing SC2. But if I had time to play SC2 > 3 hrs a day and review my games afterward to evaluate my decision making then I could develop that capability within some months (I hope :p - also SC pros do more things than "just" being able to fight simultaneously at 3 separate locations).
To add more context I don't follow the smartphone tech news that closely. If you ask me to name a model that was released within the last 12 months from Sony, Xiaomi, OnePlus and some other makers I wouldn't know where to start. Much less about the differences in their behavior between how open their devices are. From cases where you can't even install LineageOS to cases where you can but without locking the bootloader, up to the pixel devices where you can install GrapheneOS with a locked bootloader.
Educating myself on all those nuances to make an informed speculation about which company could be interested based on past policy looked like more effort that I was willing to commit to. Honestly if LLM's weren't an option I m not sure I would have performed a web search for it, given that for specialized topic you need to dive deep in search results to find what you need.
Instead of spending 5-10 minutes searching and evaluating posts on the internet I got an answer in like 20(?) seconds.
I m surprised you classify that issue as recreational thinking. I was a bit reductive of it myself as I just considered it bad curiosity. That's why I used the word speculation. It's one thing to ask ChatGPT how good a research paper that made the news is without even bothering to read the summary and another thing not to want to evaluate other people's speculations. And I am saying this is speculation, since, to the best of my knowledge, the parties involved are not speaking about this. I think that difference in the classification of this task is one of the key parts why we preferred different actions over this "case/scenario".
I disagree with your brain cycles comment but there is indeed some nuance that both my post and "Trump's" example miss. Mental bandwidth is a thing and is indeed limited. But it's not a static thing. The (not necessarily good) way that I understand it, is like this. It's a muscle that can only do so much at a time. Like a daily budget of mental (or physical) activities. If you use that budget in a good way you can expand it. And if you don't it can decrease. If you try to go over budget, you can also "crush" under the weight of what you are trying to do. For example if I'm playing Starcraft 2 and I am trying to attack in 3 separate places at once I am going to mess things up because I m not that good (unlike the pros). It would have been better if I focused on one location because that's the extent of my capabilities. I can mentally keep track of only so many things while playing SC2. But if I had time to play SC2 > 3 hrs a day and review my games afterward to evaluate my decision making then I could develop that capability within some months (I hope :p - also SC pros do more things than "just" being able to fight simultaneously at 3 separate locations).