When you lose the ability to write, you also lose some of your ability to think

Re:When you lose the ability to write, you also lose some of... by BulgarianIdiot on Thursday May 11, 2023 @04:23AM (#35899373)

Plato turned out right. I'm not extremely old and I still remember time before the Internet, when to know something, you had to look it up, which took ages, so you simply had to know it. Yourself.

We measured intelligence by the things you knew. We still have shows with questions based on this concept. This concept no longer makes sense in the modern world. But it used to.

Writing is a crutch, Internet even more so, and AI even more so. Eventually you can build the entire thinker out of those crutches and you need no humans anymore.

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Re:When you lose the ability to write, you also lose some of... by yawnxyz on Thursday May 11, 2023 @08:42AM (#35901233)

We measured intelligence by the number of memorized facts we'd internalized, but little did we know that collecting more facts doesn't make us more intelligent

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Re:When you lose the ability to write, you also lose some of... by BulgarianIdiot on Thursday May 11, 2023 @04:47PM (#35908148)

Well, "intelligent" has always been a murky term, and as tech is rapidly surpassing us in every way, it'll become even more meaningless as times goes on.

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