Benvie

If we look at using the internet as a method of offloading both memory and processing from our brain, we see it as a tool that allows our brain to reach higher level abstractions and better reasoned and tested hypothesis. By deferring to the hive mind, we remove the need to actually sift through information ourselves. Once we trust our own ability to filter the signal from the hive mind's noise, then we can defer to it more and more to make decisions for us, freeing our minds to make higher level decisions.

The more filtered you get, the better it works. I rarely read articles nowadays. I read the comments first and... (read more)