"You also shouldn’t pretend that by cognitively offloading a task, you will magically get smarter because you can focus on more advanced and complex skills.

[isomoth@infosec.exchange]

"You also shouldn’t pretend that by cognitively offloading a task, you will magically get smarter because you can focus on more advanced and complex skills. More advanced and complex skills are based on simpler ones. If you don’t have the simpler skills, you can’t develop the more advanced ones. You can’t think strategically about chess unless you know how the pieces move. And the cognitive offload makes it less likely we will get the practice that lets us acquire the basic skills."

Are we living in a stupidogenic society?

The cognitive muscles we no longer exercise

(substack.nomoremarking.com)