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Re:26% of students ages 13-17 are using ChatGPT to help with... by skulk on Monday January 20, 2025 @10:05AM (#42769436)
I think technology is making the general populace stupider. Presidential debates are a litmus test for what politicians expect of the populace. A hundred years ago they sounded a lot different than how they sound now. Does your nihilism encompass this change as well?
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Re:26% of students ages 13-17 are using ChatGPT to help with... by thunky on Monday January 20, 2025 @10:31AM (#42769660)
So what is your proposed solution?

Ban technology that helps us "think" and go back to paper and ink?

Or would you rather we keep innovating but then pretend that technology doesn't exist (closed book, no calculators) to force us to be "smarter"?

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Re:26% of students ages 13-17 are using ChatGPT to help with... by skulk on Monday January 20, 2025 @12:24PM (#42770894)
My tone might have indicated otherwise, but I don't have a solution because I don't really see a problem along this axis. I don't really care about how stupid everyone is, as long as their material conditions are at a standard I consider good.
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