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Stuff like this legitimately makes me question whether using more basic technological assistants such as calculators has fucked up our brains for the worse, and we just don't understand what we've lost.
It's hard since plato writes about it in the Phaedrus about writing specifically (it's a tool for forgetting!)
So it's been around for a while, but the scale and stakes are probably new
It makes me want to engage in some activities of pure body and thought, un-meddled with by such technology as writing. Storytelling, singing, dance, sports... these things which can only be taught in-person, and which are intensely self-expressive personal experiences, while simultaneously group activities. They as far as you can get from dead and robotic.
Wait till they design a robot that can throw sick 720 pretzels off a hubba