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owisdtoday at 6:29 PM1 replyview on HN

Feels like one of these things that's been known for decades in the general form: tools that take cognitive load off your working memory (a calculator, writing) free your brain up for higher level thinking make you "smarter", whereas tools that take the higher level tasks off you and load up your working memory (hypertext, AI) make you "stupider".


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pasquinellitoday at 6:35 PM

i don't understand what you're saying about hypertext.

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