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Re:Andrej Karpathy talks about "Claws" by xrd on Saturday February 21, 2026 @01:29PM (#47103324)
Totally anecdotal but I think phones have made us less present, or said another way, less capable of using our brains effectively. It isn't exactly dumb but it feels very close.

I definitely think we are smarter if you are using IQ, but are we less reactive and less tribal? I'm not so sure.

Re:Andrej Karpathy talks about "Claws" by aix1 on Sunday February 22, 2026 @02:26AM (#47109035)
There's quite a lot of research into what our increasing reliance on technology is doing to our briains.

Here is one paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-62877-0

"Although the longitudinal sample was small, we observed an important effect of GPS use over time, whereby greater GPS use since initial testing was associated with a steeper decline in hippocampal-dependent spatial memory. Importantly, we found that those who used GPS more did not do so because they felt they had a poor sense of direction, suggesting that extensive GPS use led to a decline in spatial memory rather than the other way around."