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Re:26% of students ages 13-17 are using ChatGPT to help with... by lm28469 on Monday January 20, 2025 @11:10AM (#42770030)
> How does that knowledge have anything to do with their work lives? Does your boss jump in the middle of your TPS reports in Jira and ask you to point Africa on the map within 3 seconds without using your phone or you're fired?

> Knowledge of random shit or trivia has no value anymore in developed societies where every worker

Yeah I mean if your entire existence revolves around your job and what your boss thinks of you we're in for a weird discussion... Life has more to offer than 50 year of work and 15 years of retirement. What a strange and sad way to envision life. Cultivating your mind and knowledge, as well as your body, should be way up in the list of things we have to focus on, you might want to check the etymology (if you know what that means, it's not a very useful term in the workplace) of "education"

> Now you can be a car owner without knowing how to change the oil or how a clutch works. That was not the case 50 or so years ago.

Nice, that's definitely what we want, monkeys pushing buttons without any ideas of what's going on under the hood. Why would you want to know why the earth is round, what gravity is, why braking distances are longer in rain, how ABS works, what is engine braking, why you can't stomp on the brakes for 30min straight while driving down a mountain road, ... People smoke their clutches all the time, run on bald tires, use summer tires in winter, pour oil in their coolant tank.

What's the point of being ultra specialised in a niche field, or even worse, profession, if you're a complete dummy in life

edit: and also, most people aren't even specialised, so now you get the worst of both world

Re:26% of students ages 13-17 are using ChatGPT to help with... by Cumpiler69 on Monday January 20, 2025 @03:02PM (#42772473)
>What a strange and sad way to envision life.

What an entitled and 'holier than though' view. When you can't afford rent, groceries, education or medical bills due to inflation, and don't have a support network or family, what use is it to the Average Joe to be "enlightened" on random shit like pointing Africa on the map.

Maslow's hierarchy of needs (shelter, food, sex, relationships) will always take priority for most individuals over learning random pub-quiz trivia.

Re:26% of students ages 13-17 are using ChatGPT to help with... by lm28469 on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @04:29AM (#42778034)
Knowing where Africa is located is "enlightenment"... this forum keeps on giving

All the problems you listed come from the same root, and LLMs won't solve them

> Maslow's hierarchy of needs (shelter, food, sex, relationships) will always take priority for most individuals over learning random pub-quiz trivia.

Time to plug in your brain and ponder why the top economies of the world aren't able to provide basic human needs while generating more wealth than ever before, once again, same root as above, once again, LLMs won't solve any of that.

We could have AGI and immortality tomorrow, as long as we keep the free for all ultra individualistic profit seeking capitalistic system it's not going to change jack shit.

> random pub-quiz trivia.

> Maslow's hierarchy of needs

Wow slow down cowboy, "maslow's hierarchy" IS random pub-quiz trivia, get that off your brain real quick, you wouldn't want to become enlightened do you ?