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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things, a lot of people talk about how good it is at that… and it is, for a quick and dirty intro, but it’s always outdated, incomplete, and inaccurate.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”

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).

Bus numbers and it's connections. Growing up in a metropolitan Asian city, I enjoyed taking buses everywhere. To school, to grandparents place, to friend's houses, to friend's grandparents houses etc, I could give routes that went through posh neighbourhoods, or food recommendations along the routes.

It was my super power before Google maps came along 🥲

I still remember my childhood home phone number, but I don't need to memorise any phone number anymore. I still have them archived for everyone I care to know in a cloud synced joplin file. That also includes birthdays. I can barely remember my own let alone other peoples.

GPS I'd be fucked without. Aphantasia and a horrible sense of direction. I'm glad I missed the paper map era. I only know the routes I have driven multiple times, so a large portion of the core city and satellite towns.

I don't use Facebook at all. Deleted that shit in 2014.

Don't use AI very often outside of questions where a traditional web search isn't or is no longer viable due to enshittification and gameified results. Begrudgingly, and I check the sources. No trusting a sanitized corporate sycophant bot. But it's not like those traditional web searches weren't buried in misinfo, disinfo, or AI spam articles either. People seem to willfully not acknowledge that.

Edit: I also read paper books and go to my local library.

Music algorithms.

Finding music and appreciating it more because you had to physically search for it at a store and you only had so much money, so you listened to that album over and over. Talking with friends to hear the music they thought was cool and would recommend something to you according to your taste.

Now we have infinite choices and even when we find something new to us, a lot of times quickly becomes forgotten for other music we just found.

When the jetsons tech finally kicks in and humans stop flossing both their ends X_X

The truth

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