• Libra00@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    ‘AI is making us dumb!’ -2025

    ‘Social media is making us dumb!’ -2020

    ‘Smartphones are making us dumb!’ -2010s

    ‘The internet is making us dumb!’ -1990s

    ‘Television is making us dumb!’ -1970s

    ‘Books are making us dumb!’ -1500s

    You’d think we’d know by know that that’s just how technology works - it makes us ‘dumb’ because we don’t need to spend the effort to do things we’ve automated away with technology and thus can focus on shit that is more important to us. If I don’t have to sit around thinking about math because someone invented a calculator, that’s more time that I can spend doing the thing I want to use the math for. The math is a tool, not the point itself.

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    1 day ago

    Can you put "[PDF] in your title?

    I am asking because a lot of people don’t expect a PDF to start downloading when they click a link.

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      24 hours ago

      I hate that. Why can’t browsers(by default) display it like viewing a website, just store it in cache and delete it after we close the tab, instead of downloading to our hard drives. Its like going on youtube and every video you watch gets downloaded into your hard drive and you gotta delete them manually