We can’t circumvent the work needed to train our minds
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We can’t circumvent the work needed to train our minds
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Re: We can’t circumvent the work needed to train our minds
#2It’s the same with math. A lot of people say they don’t need to be able to do basic arithmetic because they can use a calculator. But I think that you can process the world much better and faster if at a minimum you have some intuition about numbers and arithmetic.
It’s the same with a lot of other things. AI and search engines help a lot but you are at an advantage if at least you have some ability to gauge what should be possible and how to do it.
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#3TLDR: firing and forgetting the first result off of a single google search isn't the best long term approach. But this guy had a bri..coaching to sell you that apparently makes you a better human being
Re: We can’t circumvent the work needed to train our minds
#4> Rowlands et al. wrote about the so called “digital natives” that they lack the critical and analytical thinking skills to evaluate the information they find on the internet.
This doesn't match the cultural shift in the last 20 years. A generation of people grew up with chat rooms and immediately discovered the ability to misrepresent oneself on the internet. "On the internet, no one knows you're a dog", as they say. That whole demographic assumes that media is lying by default. Compare that to previous generations that trusted certain media institutions like cable news, newspapers, radio shows, etc. because the production value and scarcity of media instilled trust.
Trust in media institutions is at an all time low, and will likely never recover. That has to be attributed to the newer generations. They are more skeptical of propaganda than ever before. To them, the high production value media outlets are just a quaint legacy variety of content slop.
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#5> Rowlands et al. wrote about the so called “digital natives” that they lack the critical and analytical thinking skills to evaluate the information they find on the internet. This doesn't match the cultural shift in the last 20 years. A generation of people grew up with chat rooms and immediately discovered the ability to misrepresent oneself on the internet. "On the internet, no one knows you're a dog", as they say…
> If anything the newer generation is more skeptical of propaganda than ever before.
Laughs in Polish GenZ voting for Konfederacja (alt-right)
Re: We can’t circumvent the work needed to train our minds
#6> Rowlands et al. wrote about the so called “digital natives” that they lack the critical and analytical thinking skills to evaluate the information they find on the internet. This doesn't match the cultural shift in the last 20 years. A generation of people grew up with chat rooms and immediately discovered the ability to misrepresent oneself on the internet. "On the internet, no one knows you're a dog", as they say…
> That whole demographic assumes that media is lying by default.
Yes. And then they turn around and trust that the Boston Marathon Bomber was some random kid because Reddit said so.
The new generation of netizens distrusts classic media and then suddenly trusts Reddit and Google searches and random blogs.
Bad Twitter arguments citing YouTube videos talking about a Redditors problem about Microsoft Updates and SSDs just broke through a week or two ago and nearly everyone involved in the discussion is utterly wrong.
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#7> If you can’t produce a comprehensive answer with confidence and on the whim the second you read the question, you don’t have the sufficient background knowledge.
While the article makes some reasonable points, this is too far gone. You don't need to know how to "weigh each minute spend on flexibility against the minutes spent on aerobic capacity and strength" to put together a reasonable workout plan. Sure, your workouts might not be as minmaxed as they possibly could be, but that really doesn't matter. So long as the plan is not downright bad, the main thing is that you keep at it regularly. The same idea extends to nearly every other domain, you don't need to be a deep expert to get reasonably good results.
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#8> Rowlands et al. wrote about the so called “digital natives” that they lack the critical and analytical thinking skills to evaluate the information they find on the internet. This doesn't match the cultural shift in the last 20 years. A generation of people grew up with chat rooms and immediately discovered the ability to misrepresent oneself on the internet. "On the internet, no one knows you're a dog", as they say…
> If anything the newer generation is more skeptical of propaganda than ever before. Laughs in Polish GenZ voting for Konfederacja (alt-right)
Don't know anything about this particular party, but all the alt-right stuff I've seen leans heavily into skepticism of authority. Not exactly the same thing as propaganda, but might be a meaningful connection.
Re: We can’t circumvent the work needed to train our minds
#9I remember things just fine, just not at the sufficient detail to remember all aspects at the drop of a pin. What I hold on to are the core concepts that allow me to hit the ground running when I have to interact with the subject-matter again.
Re: We can’t circumvent the work needed to train our minds
#10We can remember it for you wholesale specifically