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That’s entirely up to you. Do you not have phone numbers for your main people memorized? I also have my library card memorized. This level of memory work isn’t rocket scientist level functioning, it’s a choice.
Do you really want to be in a hospital, after a car accident, with no phone (destroyed/lost in crash), and have no idea how to call your parent, spouse, or child? This occurs more often than you’d think.
Okay, but its also much rarer to get lost and stranded with no way to get help anymore. You really have to go out of your way to be completely isolated.
This is /possibly/ part of a long term trend of decreasing human reliance on brainpower.
Brain size doesn't neatly correlate to intelligence, but it's still kind of used as a proxy, over human evolution. It gets bigger for a long time, then starts getting smaller again, starting maybe 20k-3k years ago.
This has been attributed to group size, agriculture, writing or statistical error. So maybe it's not a thing.
I continue to remember phone numbers and birthdays. No Google or Facebook for me and I'm waiting for the AI bubble to pop.
Edit: GPS, I thought you meant Google play services. I do use an offline map on my phone if I'm going to an unfamiliar area but I have no problem reading a map.
The way it’s going…
AI: Happy Birthday! Other notable people who share your birthday: Adolf Hitler, Mussolini, Charlie Kirk, and many more great historical figures you should hope to praise!
How to be human
I will never forget about Dre
I've honestly been thinking about this a lot lately. I'm not proud of myself.
how for right coherent sentences other people red.
also the ability to research things, a lot of people talk about how good it is at that… and it is, for a quick and dirty intro, but it’s always outdated, incomplete, and inaccurate.
it’s basically only good as a springboard to do real, Natural Intelligence, research…
also I hearby copyright ©️ and trademark ™️ “Natural Intelligence” and “NI”
how for right coherent sentences other people red
I can't tell if this is a bit or not—I thought I was having a stroke for a minute.
How to hard boil eggs.
The internet makes us dumb. Why bother remembering anything when you can just look it up?
Music algorithms.
Finding music and appreciating it more because you had to physically search for it at a store and you only had so much money, so you listened to that album over and over. Talking with friends to hear the music they thought was cool and would recommend something to you according to your taste.
Now we have infinite choices and even when we find something new to us, a lot of times quickly becomes forgotten for other music we just found.
Man, I didn't even memorize numbers other than my own house's when cell phones were something only rich businessmen had. I used a phone book.
If smart glasses with heads-up displays become normalized, you will eventually have married couples that don't remember each other's names.
