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> if it really is laziness, and not something else, e.g. a mental health issue. Kids optimize. When I was in high school I was fully capable of getting straig
by Swizec 1y ago
> if it really is laziness, and not something else, e.g. a mental health issue.
Kids optimize. When I was in high school I was fully capable of getting straight F's in a class I didn't care about and straight A's in a class I enjoyed.
Why bother learning chemistry when you could instead spend that time coding cool plugins and websites in PHP that thousands of internet strangers are using? I really did build one of the most popular phpBB plugins and knew I was gonna be a software engineer. Not that my chemistry professor cared about any of that or even understood what I'm talking about.
- johnisgood 1y agoWhat you just described is irrelevant to what we are discussing. As for what you said, yeah, I got 1s (Fs) because I was too busy coding and reading books on philosophy, as a 14 years old.
- Swizec 1y agoHow is it irrelevant? Kids will always cheat their way through classes they feel are a distraction. Even the super smart Type A kids. Hell, all humans do that. You use every resource available to get out of dealing with things that are not your priority. This means you will never be good at those things and that’s fine. You can’t be good at everything.
- johnisgood 1y agoThey will, but we were talking about the will or motivation to learn. If someone has a curious mind, and actually wants to learn, then they can definitely use LLMs to do that. I don't disagree with you though.