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> The world is going to become stupider because it’s easier. Wasn't the same thing when we switched from books to web? We lost the ability for long reads, and
by visarga 2y ago
> The world is going to become stupider because it’s easier.
Wasn't the same thing when we switched from books to web? We lost the ability for long reads, and instead just search and click directly to specific information, losing the larger context. And we adapted, we have a whole search culture, reputation systems, new patterns of interaction with information.
- azinman2 2y agoWeb didn’t really replace long reads. You didn’t have a searchable question that you’d previously read hundreds of pages for. More and more short form content started coming out, then social media, all of which both replaced books as entertainment while simultaneously reducing attention span. But it’s not just online media - look at modern tv/film and watch old… the cuts were so much slower previously. That’s probably caused by the changes from web/social media, more than the other way around. However the extent that the web could replace your work is very minimal because you’d be copy/pasting some existing untailored source. Now, we can take your tailored question / task and have it just completed for you. Doing is a huge part of learning, and if you don’t do, you won’t learn.