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[–] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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!

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[–] Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

How to be human

[–] Eh_I@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] Horsecook@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

I still memorize phone numbers and directions.

In fact, I’ve increased the amount of things I memorize. In addition to the massive amount of usernames and passwords I have to keep in mind, I have credit card and bank routing and account numbers memorized so I can enter payment information on the fly.

[–] omgboom@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

I will never forget about Dre

[–] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I've honestly been thinking about this a lot lately. I'm not proud of myself.

[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Except for those that are closest to us, we never would have remembered any of those things anyway; all of it would have been written down in an address book. Now the address book is digital, and is part of an LLM for some reason (selling your data).

[–] ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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”

[–] ethaver@kbin.earth 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

How to hard boil eggs.

The internet makes us dumb. Why bother remembering anything when you can just look it up?

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[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Some people know telephone numbers, some of us don't. 🤷‍♂️ What's the big deal, the point is, you should have an alternate method to access your contacts...

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[–] blave@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Having to remember a bunch of telephone numbers really sucked. I was particularly bad at it, myself, and had to carry around a little address book. I’m so much more happy now that I can store phone numbers in my phone.

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