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Your brain does not process information and it is not a computer | Aeon Essays (aeon.co)

submitted 2 years ago by plinky@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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the-podcast guy recently linked this essay, its old, but i don't think its significantly wrong (despite gpt evangelists) also read weizenbaum, libs, for the other side of the coin

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[–] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

outside of couple of weirdos, people cannot remember gibberish, try to remember hash number of something for a day

Don't appreciate the ableist language here just because nerudodivergence is inconvenient to your argument. I can fairly easily memorize my credit card number.

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

I can as well, hash numbers are much worse due to 16 number system.

I was mainly pointing out it's not typical brain activity to remember info which we don't perceive as memorable, despite its information contents. Its not a poke at nd folks why would people remembring 10000 digits of pi be nd? but i'll change it, you are right