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The external tools people use to reason, remember and calculate — including chatting with an LLM — are genuine extensions of the human mind, not just aids to it.
Drawn from what Steven Johnson said
SubjectLLMs
What Steven Johnson actually said
- Steven Johnson Non-fiction writer, podcaster and occasional TV host
the external tools that we use to help us reason, remember, associate, calculate-from counting on our fingers to chatting with an advanced LLM-should be properly understood as extensions of our own cognitive process.
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↗Notebooks And The Extended Mindadjacentpossible.substack.com
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