Should tools be making us smarter? Or should they just do smart things for us?
I think it's good that tools make us smarter. In fact, that might be a good heuristic for thinking of new ones. Which tools make us smarter, and why, and what new things of that type could we make?
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Example - Twitter :)
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More on this here, from
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Ideally, tools will enable us to do smarter things, so in that sense the tools both make us smarter and do smart things for us. But what happens when tools become much smarter than us, so that it is much more efficient for tools to just bypass us, and simply do the smart thing...
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...without our involvement whatsoever? I personally think such a development would be wholly unfortunate. It would diminish and reduce the human experience to nothing but smart outcomes, when in fact what we value and cherish of our existence is in the process.
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It's still search engines. Current search engines are one step ahead of a Dewey-Decimal system. Until someone can say "How to fix a leaky faucet" and not have to search beyond that point, search engines are unfinished. The "I'm feeling lucky" button was ahead of its time.
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@obsdmd, Twitter (yes, Twitter). Emotional intelligence through RV dream-like learning?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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This might be an interesting design criterion for programming languages, if it were possible to be a bit more precise about what it means.
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javascript be like
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As you offload memory to search engines your ability to process long-term memory degrades. This affects your identity, which is memory, as well culture - group memory. One reason we’re having an identity crisis now.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shallows_(book) …
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An abacus makes you smarter, a calculator makes you dependent on it (but also 10x more efficient) - hard to find the balance.
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