#if you're a younger person I beg you to go analog at least a little bit and exercise your basic cog skills

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Study that shows causal effect between overuse of spellcheck and a lack of spelling capacity, study that shows causal effect between overuse of GPS and lack of direction finding, Microsoft itself made a report that generative models are making people literally incapable of their jobs. That study on handwritten vs typed notes still lives rent free in my head.

It kinda sucks for gen z and alpha to be the test pigs for this shit, but even worse is that you know people are too stupid to realise this is a real problem that needs to be addressed now, and the worst is that the funding to create the necessary programs to preserve these fundamental cognitive skills will never happen in time.

Boomers down through us Millennials didn't really have this issue because it wasn't a default tool; we learned spelling and map reading and had to manually proof read and correct our writing and so on.

Now you just right-click the squiggle or ask google how to get somewhere or expect a machine to do a job and pray it doesn't fuck up in a way you are literally too incompetent/underskilled to either fix or recognise. Tech tools are neutral things and used right can be beneficial but man we are speed running our way to Idiocracy real fast.