Reading an interesting paper on the necessity of “old-school” learning like memorisation in an age of AI. Here’s a good excerpt of its POV:
“‘Why memorize it when you can look it up?’ Yet this modern mindset carries a paradox. Just as schools and students began relying on calculators and the internet, a significant shift occurred. Decades of steadily rising IQ scores—the famed Flynn Effect—suddenly leveled off and even began to reverse in several high-income countries. Although IQ is undoubtedly influenced by multiple factors, considerable evidence suggests this educational shift away from explicit content instruction and memorization, combined with increased reliance on external memory aids and continuous digital distractions, has actively contributed to declining cognitive performance.
Full paper available as PDF download here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5250447
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