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What We Lost When Search Stopped Making Us Think

Hacker News Top · 2026-08-21 Cached

The article explores how search engines have declined due to SEO and AI-generated content, leading to a erosion of users' research skills as they rely on AI summaries without verifying sources.

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@immersivetran: Many people, when faced with academic papers, habitually start from the first line and read word by word all the way to the end, like reading a novel. They believe that only by reading it completely in its original form can they show respect and understanding for the research. Professor S. Keshav from the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, Canada, wrote a paper titled "How to...

X AI KOLs Timeline · 2026-07-03 Cached

Introduces the 'Three-Pass Approach' proposed by Professor S. Keshav at the University of Waterloo, an efficient strategy for reading academic papers that helps researchers control the depth of reading based on their needs.

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@Xudong07452910: I recently came across a long post by Anthropic researcher Vivek (@itsreallyvivek) on how to truly train your research ability. What struck me most: many times we think we're doing research, but we're really just chasing trends, scrolling Arxiv, seeing what others are discussing, and then picking up those problems.

X AI KOLs Timeline · 2026-06-11 Cached

Shares insights from Anthropic researcher Vivek on how to train research ability, emphasizing habits such as independently choosing problems, predicting outcomes before experiments, and confronting failures. Argues that research ability is a set of simple habits that can be trained.

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