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Re:The Average American Spent 2.5 Months on Their Phone in 2024 by itishappy on Sunday December 29, 2024 @11:21AM (#42540847)
> The internet is not really organised in a way for you to do anything useful if you are bored. There’s no “learn about the world” course you take when you have nothing else to do.

I'd argue you're holding it wrong. The repository of all human knowledge absolutely does contain numerous "learn about the world" courses in all shapes and forms. HN, arXiv, Wikipedia, parts of YouTube, and dedicated learning platforms abound and each probably has enough content for a lifetime of learning. I agree it's not designed to make this easy, but it's also not particularly hard. Hit "random article" a few times on Wikipedia and you're off to the races.

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Re:The Average American Spent 2.5 Months on Their Phone in 2024 by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF on Monday December 30, 2024 @01:47PM (#42552265)
Well, it's not all knowledge. It doesn't know the inner thoughts of everyone. And human explicit knowledge is limited, it can't tell me whether I'll enjoy a certain bookstore if I go there.

And it's only explicit knowledge, not tacit knowledge. Nobody learns skills from browsing the Internet.

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