Notable links for June 2025
A roundup of work I didn’t regret checking out this month.
The World War II Consensus is Breaking Down:
Typical uses of AI cause functional cognitive impairment (obviously):
Link to the study: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
An interesting take on “shared humanness” shifting from being in us, to being in our environment (the internet):
At the same time as the human being with atrophied soul faculties sinks into the environment of his externalized memory, becoming increasingly a passive bystander to life and thus disempowered and less free, a near-infinite vista has opened up before him in the domain of what he is able to make of himself. On one hand he is the freest he has ever been. On the other he slides into elemental bondage. The dissonance of this situation is truly staggering.
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The confusion of languages spreads to the level of the individual, as every person now speaks his own bespoke “language” molded from the world content he freely (at first) takes in. We still speak our native tongues, but in a quite palpable sense we talk past each other and can’t connect.
This guy has a gift for making useful science look easy:
Latest from True Magic:
That’s all for this month.
Bnonn