>>17762789Nah, you should read the works of David Chalmers on the extended mind. Every time we offload a mental task onto some form of technology we get smarter because we are able to devote those neurons to a new task. Nature wastes nothing.
We invented calculators and lost the ability to do arithmetic in our heads, but not only has our understanding of mathematics advanced considerable, but the general level of mathmatical ability has also improved.
Our phones and social media now remember our social lives for us, this has enabled us to have wider and more diverse social circles.
The nature of progress is specialization, that doesn't just happen at the societal level, but the individual level too. The more general tasks we offload from our limited brains, the more specialized tasks we can learn to do.
