Links #159
Sam Kriss on reading being magic. The part about Luria’s study utterly fascinated me. The Kansas study blows my mind and seems like it has to be flawed, surely, because it does not at all match up with my experience with other people around me.
Adam Singer with more evidence that short-form video rots your brain. Avoid, avoid, avoid.
Kyle Orland on AI use leading to cognitive surrender. “Overall, across 1,372 participants and over 9,500 individual trials, the researchers found subjects were willing to accept faulty AI reasoning a whopping 73.2 percent of the time, while only overruling it 19.7 percent of the time.” Another reason to steer clear of AI.
Jim Nielsen on skill issues and human-centered design. “Whereas a human-centered approach flips that: the technology exists to serve people as they actually are, not as we wish them to be. Confusion is allowed to be seen as a design failure, not a user failure.”