There are more and more people summarizing books with chatgpt instead of reading them: Welcome to the era of post-alfabetization

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Spending an hour asking Chatgpt about Adam Smith generally teaches you the triple to spend an hour reading ‘the richness of nations’. University students use because it is a better and more efficient way to learn.

The comment of Doug Henwood:

We have fully entered postalfabetization and this is really alarming.

They talk about A silent transformation but quite fast and, apparently, massive: Students have discovered that they can “read” ‘The richness of nations‘, The academic manual of economy par excellence, talking with Chatgpt.

According to the first – University Professor – an hour of dialogue gives them more processable information than weeks battling with Adam Smith’s original. Efficiency is overwhelming.

AND Many students are adopting this practicesomething endorsed by Papers. They do it without fuss. They have simply found a better method to absorb complex knowledge:

1. They load the PDF
2. They ask for the main ideas.
3. They throw specific questions.
4. They ask for clarifications.
5. They request contemporary examples.

The result: Understanding the fundamentals of the economy in a fraction of the necessary time so far.

The problem is that they learn to read manuals in a very different way.

This cognitive mutation has been baptized by Henwood as “postalfabetization.” We continue to have the ability to read, but we have outsourced intellectual digestion. As with spatial orientation and the use of GPS, we are delegating a basic brain function at AI. From this There was already talk More than fifteen years ago.

Deep reading It demands mental resistancetolerance to ambiguity, gradual construction of criteria. Chatgpt Instead, it offers instant clarity and immediate synthesis.

The generation that grows with this practice will develop other cognitive skills:

• On the one hand, higher processing speed, better synthesis capacity, perhaps broader conceptual connections.
• On the other, a huge dependence on algorithmic intermediary.

When all the information comes pre-processed, the muscle of critical thought ends up atrophy.

Postalfabetization is surely inevitable, probably irreversible. Those who dominate both modes – traditional lift, dialogue with AI – will have an advantage. The rest will be trapped in their own efficiency: brilliant on the surface but vulnerable in depth.

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There are more and more people summarizing books with chatgpt instead of reading them: Welcome to the era of post-alfabetization

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