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Educator @dioscuri argues rote memorization remains essential despite LLMs

TabulAI's Bojan Tunguz warns that human memory distorts facts.

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Educator @dioscuri argues rote memorization remains essential despite LLMs

TabulAI's Bojan Tunguz warns that human memory distorts facts.

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BT Bojan Tunguz@tunguz

8:18 AM · Jul 23, 2026

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Largely true, except that we tend to misremember "facts" quite often, and our own memory is an expert at playing tricks on us.

Henry Shevlin@dioscuri

My students sometimes ask why they should memorise things in the age of Google and LLMs. But internalised facts are your bullshit filters and your raw material for creative association. Facts outside your head are inert.

HS Henry Shevlin@dioscuri

7:52 AM · Jul 23, 2026

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Positive users highlight how memorized facts serve as bullshit filters and creative fuel despite AI flaws, while a few negative users dismiss the emphasis on memorization as outdated thinking.

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PR Paul Raymond-Robichaud@PaulRRobichaud

10:04 AM · Jul 23, 2026

@dela3499 @dioscuri To make a creative association between a set of ideas, they need to be inside your mind at that point. I agree wholeheartedly with the original tweet. The same argument had been made before AI, since you could say, why memorize if you can just google stuff.

SU Subsidiarity133@subsidiarity133

9:11 AM · Jul 23, 2026

@dioscuri Excellent point. No real short cuts in life. Google/LLMs -Used well they can be helpful tooks in a big toolbox

GC Giacinta Cestone@geografiaumana

8:23 AM · Jul 23, 2026

@dioscuri “Raw material for creative association” - 100% this

V(Val (osopher)@Valen_T_N

8:55 AM · Jul 23, 2026

@dioscuri 🥇 ☝🏽Here’s Your banger teacher award (I’m serious)

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SO Soxaholic@MikeBrennan330

8:35 AM · Jul 23, 2026

@dioscuri Your students are pointing out the Road to Idiocracy.

RH Roger Hunt@roger_jgs404040

8:18 AM · Jul 23, 2026

@dioscuri This is the old way of thinking. There are new ways!!

BT Bojan Tunguz@tunguz

8:18 AM · Jul 23, 2026

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Largely true, except that we tend to misremember "facts" quite often, and our own memory is an expert at playing tricks on us.

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Positive users highlight how memorized facts serve as bullshit filters and creative fuel despite AI flaws, while a few negative users dismiss the emphasis on memorization as outdated thinking.

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