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Because there has to be a point where you start using your own brain and memory. Just like a muscle you need to train and use them in order to keep them efficie
by rootlocus 10y ago
Because there has to be a point where you start using your own brain and memory. Just like a muscle you need to train and use them in order to keep them efficient. In a normal conversation you don't have time to access a word in a dictionary. How many words are you willing to memorize? How much offline knowledge is required for you to "survive"? If we offload all cognitive efforts to machines, what is left except meat and bones?
Where exactly is that point? I don't know.
- adamnemecek 10y ago> In a normal conversation you don't have time to access a word in a dictionary. If you haven't the heard the word up until that points, odds are pretty good that you might not have needed it.
- rootlocus 10y agoCoupled with the question "how many words are you willing to memorize" I was trying to offer a sense of scale to the absurd. If looking up words in dictionaries is sufficient, how many words should you memorize offline? If everyone agrees learning words is outdated, what will they use to speak? Orwell's newspeak? Most communication, as opposed to art for instance, works both ways. You listen and read, but also speak and write. Dictionaries help you with the first part, but you'll need a little more effort with the second.