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What happens if the entire generation is students like this?

You can't believe your lying eyes!

I'm so sick of this trope. The point of numeracy is not in case you're suddenly caught without a calculator, although longhand arithmetic is definitely a good skill to possess.

I mean, kinda, in that today's tech leaders consider themselves god-kings, and not, like... people who sell word processing CDs at Circuit City.

Who could possibly be miserable amidst disease and authoritarianism?

Because as we all know, if you can't do something perfectly every time, you might as well not even try.

Except calculators actually do something useful and return the correct results, a crucial departure from the functionality of LLMs.

You need to be able to read to use an LLM (the second "L" is particularly salient).

Did giving teachers guns and reducing their salaries not fix it?

In the old days, when we decided something was bad for society at large, we'd handle it with laws. How quaint.

"Who cooked them?", he pondered, on the HN post situated between "I built a robot waifu with ChatGPT" and "Here's why it's okay to kill the bottom 10% of the workforce".

Hear me out: we could also build a more equitable society, one where the two choices aren't "live like an impoverished monk" and "win the Hunger Games".

What if we all just stopped competing?

Half of this website punches "Create a React app" into ChatGPT at work all day. I would make peace with the future.

Crucially, this also determines the quality of your medical care, and how hard the nursing home staff will hit you after you retire.

Everything in America is a competition. I'm sorry, but I chuckled considering that this _very website_ is devoted entirely to ruthlessly choosing winners and losers in (what purports to be) a cutthroat field. It's Hunger Games over here, buddy.

Who knew it was this easy? Thank you, citizen.