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It used to be reading and writing were skills. People would strive to get better, usually by steeping themselves in the work of better writers so some rubs off.
by kjkjadksj 1y ago
It used to be reading and writing were skills. People would strive to get better, usually by steeping themselves in the work of better writers so some rubs off.
Now, the llm summarizes the email, so you only have to be so literate to understand bullet points. The llm takes your bullet points and turns them into long form writing, because you can’t write. They say this is necessary because they aren’t good writers, but this creates a self fulfilling prophecy if they just avoid writing entirely.
A sad time when people are allowing their ability to read and write fall by the wayside. These used to be skills people valued and took pride in improving for themselves. Now people shut their brain off.
- SirMaster 1y agoThe people who do this will probably fall behind, and will maybe learn from that lesson in the long run.
- micromacrofoot 1y agoWhen has that ever happened?
- SirMaster 1y agoYou are saying people who took shortcuts and fell behind because of it never learned a lesson from that? Not saying everyone would, but definitely some people do.
- micromacrofoot 1y agoon an individual level it happens all the time, but I'm not sure it's ever happened broadly on a societal level?
- coliveira 1y agoMost people have only one chance to learn reading and writing, when they are kids. After that it gets exponentially harder.
- SirMaster 1y agoWell I am not talking specifically about reading and writing. I am talking about the concept in general. People who only and constantly use AI to take a shortcut to reach some outcome rather than learn to do it themselves will likely fall behind in the long run and perhaps learn a lesson from having chose that route, and then have to spend some time actually learning the thing if they want to catch back up.
- kjkjadksj 1y agoThe risk is eventually we have fewer and fewer good horses to pull our collective weight. This is the entire idea of education and higher education: to create a surplus of technically literate people who go on to lift all boats. The entire concept of AI would never have materialized without these technical people. The opportunity cost of losing potential technical people and the inventions they could produce is incalculable.
- a5c11 1y agoNo reason to feel sorry for others. Follow your path, don't look behind.