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Libra@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

The people who were used to the oral tradition were right. Memorising things is good for your memory. No, I don’t think people will stop thinking altogether

Except people didn’t stop memorizing things. I went to school in the 1970s - unarguably a long-ass time after we stopped using the oral tradition as the primary method to transmit culture) and I was memorizing shit left and right. I still remember those multiplication tables, ‘in 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue’, etc 40-odd years later.

(please don’t be reductive like this lmao)

Sorry, I thought it was pretty clear that I was expressing skepticism at the idea that anyone actually thought this.

But people did get worse at remembering things.

If you have evidence that suggests that people got worse at remembering things between, say, ancient Greece and the Industrial Revolution I’d love to see it.

We know that using tools makes us worse at whatever the tool automates, because without practice you become worse at things.

Likewise if you have evidence that people stopped thinking with the invention of books, the calculator, computers, the internet, etc, don’t be shy about it.

because without practice you become worse at things.

You assume that offloading some mental processes to AI means we will stop practicing them. I argue that we’ll just use the capabilities we have for other things. I use ChatGPT to help me worldbuild, structure my writing projects, come up with thematically-consistent names, etc, for example, but it’s not writing for me and I still come up with names and such all the time.

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