Why Reading Everything Makes You Less Intelligent (And What AI is Learning from It)
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What if our inability to process the sheer volume of available information isn't a cognitive flaw, but an evolutionarily refined superpower?
In this episode of Mind Cast, host Will breaks down a groundbreaking research paper exploring how human minds build expertise—and why the world’s leading AI laboratories are racing to copy our selective filtering strategies.
We dive into why "reading everything" can actually degrade your thinking, how Michael Polanyi's concept of tacit knowledge explains the gap between AI and human wisdom, and how DeepMind's Chinchilla scaling law…
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