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by nixpulvis 1814 days ago
Sorry, but upon further reflection, the whole premise of the title is nonsense. What even is technology!? You simply can't make a convincing title for this subject.

I'm not about to drop the cash to actually read this article (as you should suspect). I just know at this point anything I read on nature.com is trash.

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I mean the title of the nature article is pretty much a summary of a null result, but it’s phrased in a way that is very easy to interpret as positive (or at least non-negative) wrt the effect of technology on cognition. Where I really doubt the popular interpretation of ‘cognition’ matches the scientific one. It probably ends up closer to ‘smartness’ or ‘effectiveness’ or just ‘good’.