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Describing your inability to make connections on your own as "external storage" is fucking hilarious.
These guys think parroting facts is the same as intelligence and that creation is no different than talking about being creative
We already have external storage for brains. Called writing
I developed a "brain hack" to help me do simple arithmetic by using my fingers to count.
I have external storage for my brain:
spoiler
It's a notebook.spoiler spoiler Also my giant, chaotically disorganized pile of browser tabs if I'm being honest. :::
The notebook is all your own effort at least, there is a direct line between the synapses and the connections you are making there in your mind to the output of the words in a note.
Using AI has none of that. Typing a prompt on whim and having the box work things out for you is going to lead to early onset dementia or something, it's got to be atrophying peoples minds
I feel like I've already got that going on with pre-AI google. Having a magic box in my pocket I can use to automatically find the answer to pretty much any question is definitely a disincentive to remembering. Unlimited Butlerian jihad on search engines.
Completely agree
Sorry, Plato is calling you out.
How do we know he said that, though? Checkmate, liberals!
Rigorous oral tradition for thousands of years, the real way to retain knowledge
Famously the highest fidelity form of information transmission humankind has ever used
He's right and it did lol, we removed ourselves even more now though with the Internet and now AI
their lack--and hatred--of awe is breathtaking in its own right.
in early days of mcsweeney's, there was a writer (i wish i could remember his name) who had a recurring series documenting how past cultures adapted their metaphorical understanding of the human brain and consciousness based on the most important component of their economy. in an agrarian society, our thoughts were blossoms blooming from our tree brain. mercantilism and smithing meant our brains were now forges hammering out pure ideas. after the industrial revolution, voila--we're thinking machines gearing up notions at scale.
in almost every case, it was a sign of someone running away from any greater potential of human creativity. they crave to be caged. these dipshits are no different.