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I kinda agree... and I would really not want to be a very young person right now, as I feel the world will be much harder to navigate and learn from. It takes
by mk_stjames 4y ago
I kinda agree... and I would really not want to be a very young person right now, as I feel the world will be much harder to navigate and learn from. It takes so much more energy to refute bullshit than to make it, and if this starts creeping into computer science then christ I wouldn't want to be a part of it.
I can imagine a sci-fi like story in the near future where CS students are searching out for 'coveted' copies of K&R, and reading human-written Python documentation, all pre-2023-vintage, because that was 'the last of the good stuff'. Hell, I could see far future stories about youth who join religions around the 'old ways' seeking the wisdom that comes with learning from actual books and docs written by actual people, instead of regurgitated teachings from an inbred, malformed, super-AI.
- ricardobayes 4y agoWe are experiencing the same as our forefathers who worked on steam engines or wrote calligraphy by hand. Or like the ancient Egyptian accountants using abacus. Jobs change, yes, we might undergo a major change, but we will do just fine.
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- rogual 4y agoOne day it'll be hard to know what the old ways even were. Which of the thousands of slightly-different PDFs claiming to be the original K&R is the real one? Which of the million history texts? Which Bible? Which maps?