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Benn's avatar

I think pre-agricultural people's brains were larger than ours because they knew who they were and where they were and needed few things to facilitate that.

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Jake Marquez and Maren Morgan's avatar

This is such an astute observation. Cognitive offload literally shrinking our brains.

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Bruce Maltby's avatar

The best article I have read on Substack. In whose name are these technologies being dropped on us like virus laden confetti?

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Jake Marquez and Maren Morgan's avatar

That is so kind of you to say! Such high praise considering how many good writers there are on Substack.

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Jack Quon's avatar

I wonder how mass unemployment from the loss of entry level jobs caused by AI will affect the post-AI incentive to move away from cities. I wonder how many other people are considering cutting their losses, buying hammer, nail and lumber and building their homes out of the city to reclaim the commons.

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