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Well there was some hope with ChatGPT that people will go back to being able to process text communication. Guess it was just a matter of time till someone fig

• stavros 2y ago
  There was some hope with the rise of equestrianism that people will go back to be able to shoe horses. Guess it was just a matter of time till someone figured out how to use "cars" to resume encouraging being unable to to a basic farrier job.
  • nottorp 2y ago
    Except cars were faster than horses, while audio or video content is much slower than reading.
    • stavros 2y ago
      Cars also have legs while audio doesn't, a point which is equally irrelevant. If people don't need to read, they don't need to read, and no matter how much a random Internet commenter wants them to need it, it won't change anything. Skills atrophy for a reason. It's fine to let them. You may as well be lamenting the lost art of long division.
      • nottorp 2y ago
        > Cars also have legs while audio doesn't, a point which is equally irrelevant. That's what a LLM would say :)
        • stavros 2y ago
          I'm sure an LLM wouldn't say anything as inane as that :P
    • hombre_fatal 2y ago
      You can multitask with audio content, so you can consume content when you can't sit down to read. And you can even potentially consume more volume like on a long daily commute. It's not the case that it's worse.