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"textContent": "When the New is Worse Than the Old by Daniel A. Kaufman “For the average person who knows nothing about a subject, a well-curated library is far superior to internet searches and especially AI, which is nothing but an aggregating tool that routinely gets basic things wrong. […] The sheer amount of what is available […]",
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