http://www.theatlantic.com/education...stupid/380944/
I thought that not using huds sometimes improves your poker playing ability. In general sense, tech sometimes makes you less creative if temporarily more powerful.
10-05-2014 09:56 PM
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Google making you dumbhttp://www.theatlantic.com/education...stupid/380944/ | |
10-05-2014 10:48 PM
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This just in: Humans use tools, and - in so doing - forget what it was like before they had those tools. | |
10-05-2014 10:57 PM
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Also: | |
10-05-2014 11:39 PM
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I think MadMojo, this is more about balance, which is tough to find if you aren't even trying to look for it. | |
10-06-2014 12:43 AM
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Balancing requires effort, which decreases the amount of effort that can be dedicated towards other things. | |
10-06-2014 01:17 AM
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I agree. | |
10-06-2014 12:49 PM
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I bet there are wiki guides on how to do it. |
10-06-2014 11:44 PM
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When conservatists speak of things that are new about our world, they tend to point out a few ways that the change hurts us, completely ignore all the ways that it improves our world and lazily conclude that we were better off in the good old days. You have to weigh the bad with the good if we're going to come to any value statement about technology's affect on our cognitive potential. As such, I don't give a sopping cunt about a string of case studies to prove that technology "is not as positive as we might think" (which, Jesus Christ, is about as tepid as a thesis could possibly be). | |
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10-06-2014 11:45 PM
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Putting aside the value statement (whether Google is good or bad), I do agree with a higher level point this article makes. The existence of Google should make us seriously reconsider what useful human intelligence is and foster less rote forms of learning. | |
10-06-2014 11:45 PM
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As an example of the above, I think grade school math tests should maybe place less and less emphasis on deriving perfectly-accurate-right-down-to-the-ones-digit when it comes to arithmetic, and place more and more emphasis on the ability to make quick and intuitive guesstimates. If you need the perfect answer upon which the water supply of the East Bay area will rely, then you best break out the calculator. If you're at a retail shop and trying to figure out in your head if you can afford a T-shirt once you account for the sale price and your coupon, then you just need a quick and reliable ballpark figure. | |
10-07-2014 12:48 PM
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It is dehumanizing to devalue a person's opinion based on other people's opinions (even if the other people have similar opinions on similar topics). | |
10-07-2014 01:51 PM
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FWIW, I meant to say conservativist. I meant nothing political by what I said, so if that's what got your diaper bound, then I'm sorry for the mixup. | |
10-07-2014 03:47 PM
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That hits the nail on the head. | |
10-07-2014 03:51 PM
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I'm not specifically against all bigotry, either. I mean, if you say, "People who rape kids are bad." Then I agree with you. Rapists are evil fuckers, and child rapists more so. | |
10-07-2014 04:21 PM
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I was actually going to make the rapist analogy until you made it yourself. It's closer to that. Rape is bad, and so rapists are bad insofar as they rape people.[1] | |
10-07-2014 05:29 PM
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I think Google helps make you smarter, I learn alot of about things I had no idea about from browsing |
10-07-2014 06:13 PM
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You can say whatever you want with statistics. I've come to the opinion that any time the media uses data, it's not just wrong, but wrong wrong. Scientists have a hard enough time understanding the conclusions that can be reached from any set of data. It's not like a journalist is going to get it right. |
10-07-2014 07:06 PM
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Knowledge is a fantastic tool to be able to utilise when problem solving. Having certain stuff memorised is actually massively more important than you are giving it credit for. I do mostly agree with the notion though. |
10-07-2014 08:02 PM
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That's true, but I don't think we do a good job of determining what kind of knowledge is important. |
10-07-2014 11:55 PM
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I think i may have posted this before long ago on some other thread, but whatever... | |
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