Flutterby™! : get in those mental steps

Hate to link to something that requires registration to read, but this one pull quote is too juicy. The Chronicle of Higher Education: Is AI Making Us Stupid? Cal Newport Is Worried. — The Georgetown computer scientist on resisting the temptation to automate hard thought.

We need to think about cognitive fitness the way we think about physical fitness. There should be a simple rule for being a thinker in an age of AI: Don’t let AI write anything for you. Writing is to cognitive health what steps are to physical health. Write that email from scratch. Write that memo with the bullet points from scratch. Don’t flee that strain. You need it as much as you need those 10,000 steps a day..

There are some other interesting thoughts in there that reinforce my opinion that formal education is, by design, abusive, and actual learning is at best a byproduct. But at least he gets this bit right.

Via.