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For a number of reasons I got my university degree in Spanish(and Spanish speaking country), where very few people spoke English - I was one of two in total as

For a number of reasons I got my university degree in Spanish(and Spanish speaking country), where very few people spoke English - I was one of two in total as a matter of fact. I always felt like I was cheating my way through cause I had access to infinitely more and better quality resources and all I had to do was translate them into Spanish and I was instantly 10 steps ahead of everyone else. With all the LLM bollocks these days, I'm suddenly feeling a lot less guilty.

FirmwareBurner 1y ago
What's there to feel guilty about? It's not like your generation invented cheating.
- axegon_ 1y ago
  Idk, maybe not cheating but a very unfair advantage - everything I ever did took me a fraction of the time compared to everyone else - while everyone was going nuts last minute, I had long forgotten about anything I had to do and was spending days or even weeks out playing pool in the local pub.
  - FirmwareBurner 1y ago
    Life in general is full of unfair advantages or disadvantages form birth. Nobody is ever equal, equality is a made up fiction, and in a competitive environment without strictly enforced rules, cheating is sometimes just the norm. If you don't cheat, you'll be outcompeted by those who do. Statistically, the more unscrupulous people behave, the more likely they are to get ahead in life. Look at politicians, CEOs, big business owners, etc.
    - jgwil2 1y ago
      > If you don't cheat, you'll be outcompeted by those who do. Not sure why you keep talking about cheating. What OP described doing emphatically and unequivocally is not cheating.
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aoki 1y ago
This is not cheating at all. Professors often tell serious students to read multiple textbooks in parallel to see different pedagogical presentations of the same material. (In the US, syllabi often list “recommended” texts as well as “required” texts.) You just happened to be able to read texts in a different language.

FirmwareBurner 1y ago

What's there to feel guilty about? It's not like your generation invented cheating.

axegon_ 1y ago
Idk, maybe not cheating but a very unfair advantage - everything I ever did took me a fraction of the time compared to everyone else - while everyone was going nuts last minute, I had long forgotten about anything I had to do and was spending days or even weeks out playing pool in the local pub.
- FirmwareBurner 1y ago
  Life in general is full of unfair advantages or disadvantages form birth. Nobody is ever equal, equality is a made up fiction, and in a competitive environment without strictly enforced rules, cheating is sometimes just the norm. If you don't cheat, you'll be outcompeted by those who do. Statistically, the more unscrupulous people behave, the more likely they are to get ahead in life. Look at politicians, CEOs, big business owners, etc.
  - jgwil2 1y ago
    > If you don't cheat, you'll be outcompeted by those who do. Not sure why you keep talking about cheating. What OP described doing emphatically and unequivocally is not cheating.
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aoki 1y ago

This is not cheating at all. Professors often tell serious students to read multiple textbooks in parallel to see different pedagogical presentations of the same material. (In the US, syllabi often list “recommended” texts as well as “required” texts.) You just happened to be able to read texts in a different language.