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Two things can be true at the same time. Google rotted our brain and AI will rot our brains even further. Google made remembering unnecessary. AI makes thinking unnecessary.

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I see AI as allowing me to delegate details I'm aware of but don't care to think about to AI, while thinking about the larger picture and the details AI missed.

I'm still thinking, just about different things at different levels.

Same thing we argued about Google, that now we don't spend time learning stuff to remember, but we can just look it up and use that time to do more, spend it on more important problems than remembering. Yet it made us stupider.

Prior to Google, I kept a thesaurus and a dictionary on my desk so I could find new stuff and avoid having to remember everything. There was also a huge set of encyclopedias in the living room, along with a globe.

Did those tools make me stupid, too? (Can we do libraries next?)

Yes, according to Socrates all writing is brainrot and libraries are essentially TikTok bingewatch.

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