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by fastball 851 days ago
Fair, but the difference is that "remembering from the inside" and "writing stuff down" are still both activities that you are doing. And to in spite of this quote, writing does make the process of remembering/synthesizing information more active – you are engaging more parts of the brain in order to think about and write down the material. We have seen this on fMRIs, and there is a decent amount of evidence that handwriting works even better for this than typing, due to the higher level of spatial awareness involved (that's the theory).

An AI doing the work for you is the opposite of that.