Comment by OroPla
6 hours ago
I remember reading about people talking how writing and reading books leads to cognitive decline because people won't need to remember things anymore.
Pretty sure the way social media is designed contributes more to short attention spans and atrophy of the cerebral cortex.
The fact people were wrong in the past doesn’t mean it’s wrong with regards to AI
And they were not wrong.
There was a decline in brain size that greatly predated widespread literacy:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20240517-the-human-brai...
FYI: The rhetorical fallacy here is called a false syllogism.