Rachel Thomas: LLMs flood the brain with new concepts, blocking long-term memory
math_rachel · x · 2026-10-21
- Rachel Thomas cites Remember, Remember and Moonwalking with Einstein to argue that LLM-driven decline in problem-solving may really be a memory problem.
- Before LLMs, daily concepts entered long-term memory via repetition; with LLMs constantly serving new concepts, the brain never gets the chance to commit anything to long-term memory.
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