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Unfortunately, this will be very popular with schoolchildren on their homework, so it'll become normalised in culture.

hef19898 4y ago
Idiocracy was, it seems, a prediction. They just got the time scale wrong, we won't need 500 years. Software means we don't need to wait for social-economic factors and genetics to run their course.
- gota 4y ago
  Yet again I have to comment that formal education levels of the parents do not affect the genetic predisposition of prole to be intelligent And that Idiocracy got the "hereditary" aspect completely and utterly wrong It was also completely unnecessary - a better and more accurate idiocracy would have people becoming progressively more stupid juste because they can, not because their parents being poor/uneducated made their brains limited Sorry if this is a rant or too out of topic. I'm just kind of amazed by how Idiocracy progressively becomes this representative piece for a completely bogus argument
madaxe_again 4y ago
Or we’ll go full circle and get them using pen and paper again. Even in the 90’s, the use of computers for schoolwork was banned due to fears over cheating. Why people think it’s less of a problem now I don’t know.
- Foobar8568 4y ago
  Because it allows to create an even wider gap between the elite and/or rich and the poor/middle class. Guess who will have access to books, literature, proper writing skills and intelligible when speaking? It just ensures social reproduction.
- teekert 4y ago
  Because normal work behind a computer is essentially 90% of what was called cheating in schools back in the day? Is something cheating when the resource you use to cheat will essentially always be 1 device away? Just call your device your cerebral prosthesis, it will always be there anyway. It’s how humanity grows and people become more effective.
  - rmbyrro 4y ago
    Unless you have a Neuralink implant, that's a recipe for extremely low productivity. It will hurt these kids' future.
  - madaxe_again 4y ago
    In my view, yes, as it means you’re having to laboriously fetch all your data from the cloud rather than having it in L2 cache. Knowing stuff and being able to compute within the confines of your skull is useful. If we’re to offload all of it, are we even human any more, or just shrews with calculators?

hef19898 4y ago

Idiocracy was, it seems, a prediction. They just got the time scale wrong, we won't need 500 years. Software means we don't need to wait for social-economic factors and genetics to run their course.

gota 4y ago
Yet again I have to comment that formal education levels of the parents do not affect the genetic predisposition of prole to be intelligent And that Idiocracy got the "hereditary" aspect completely and utterly wrong It was also completely unnecessary - a better and more accurate idiocracy would have people becoming progressively more stupid juste because they can, not because their parents being poor/uneducated made their brains limited Sorry if this is a rant or too out of topic. I'm just kind of amazed by how Idiocracy progressively becomes this representative piece for a completely bogus argument

madaxe_again 4y ago

Or we’ll go full circle and get them using pen and paper again. Even in the 90’s, the use of computers for schoolwork was banned due to fears over cheating. Why people think it’s less of a problem now I don’t know.

Foobar8568 4y ago
Because it allows to create an even wider gap between the elite and/or rich and the poor/middle class. Guess who will have access to books, literature, proper writing skills and intelligible when speaking? It just ensures social reproduction.
teekert 4y ago
Because normal work behind a computer is essentially 90% of what was called cheating in schools back in the day? Is something cheating when the resource you use to cheat will essentially always be 1 device away? Just call your device your cerebral prosthesis, it will always be there anyway. It’s how humanity grows and people become more effective.
- rmbyrro 4y ago
  Unless you have a Neuralink implant, that's a recipe for extremely low productivity. It will hurt these kids' future.
- madaxe_again 4y ago
  In my view, yes, as it means you’re having to laboriously fetch all your data from the cloud rather than having it in L2 cache. Knowing stuff and being able to compute within the confines of your skull is useful. If we’re to offload all of it, are we even human any more, or just shrews with calculators?