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by tolerance
288 days ago
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The author makes a lot of bold claims and I don’t take his main one serious re: remembering everything. I think he’s being intentionally hyperbolic. But the gist is sound to me, if you can put one together. He needs an editor. > To find what you need online, you require a solid general education and, above all, prior knowledge in the area related to your search.
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> If you can’t produce a comprehensive answer with confidence and on the whim [...] you don’t have the sufficient background knowledge.
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> This drives us to one of the most important conclusions of the entire field of note-taking, knowledge work, critical thinking and alike: You, not AI, not your PKM or whatever need to build the knowledge because only then it is in your brain and you can go the next step.
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> The advertised benefits of all these tools come with a specific hidden cost: Your ability to think. [This passage actually appears ahead of the previous one–ed.] This is best read alongside: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45154088 |
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