Okay, but its also much rarer to get lost and stranded with no way to get help anymore. You really have to go out of your way to be completely isolated.

I continue to remember phone numbers and birthdays. No Google or Facebook for me and I'm waiting for the AI bubble to pop.

Edit: GPS, I thought you meant Google play services. I do use an offline map on my phone if I'm going to an unfamiliar area but I have no problem reading a map.

In the year 2525

If smart glasses with heads-up displays become normalized, you will eventually have married couples that don't remember each other's names.

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Having to remember a bunch of telephone numbers really sucked. I was particularly bad at it, myself, and had to carry around a little address book. I’m so much more happy now that I can store phone numbers in my phone.

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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.

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The internet makes us dumb. Why bother remembering anything when you can just look it up?

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things, a lot of people talk about how good it is at that… and it is, for a quick and dirty intro, but it’s always outdated, incomplete, and inaccurate.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

I've honestly been thinking about this a lot lately. I'm not proud of myself.

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).