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We now have more of a "factoid" knowledge, but when you accumulate a lot of factoids, it can result in substantial knowledge about a lot of things. But you still have to connect them and be able to recall them quickly and know the context. The internet arms us with the tools with which we can use to support our arguments, but accurate, rapid recall is the key. Now, with artificial intelligence running on the internet, all the searches we do are probably suspect because of possible inaccuracies. We're getting summaries of the scrapings of websites, not the websites themselves. Like the curse of knowledge, the "curse of factoids" runs the risk of leaving people without the knowledge you are intending to pass on, and the factoids might be incorrect].