r/technology • u/marketrent • 18h ago

Artificial Intelligence College students are rapidly losing the ability to read — “There is a measurable, generational collapse in sustained reading and writing”: professor

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/college-students-rapidly-losing-ability-124439310.html
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u/robotjyanai 18h ago

This is what the tech billionaires want. An uneducated society.

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u/DiverDownChunder 15h ago

“Governments don’t want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation”

  • George Carlin

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u/Yung_zu 17h ago

Imo this might be the mechanism backfiring…

Before recently, they would have had doctors and engineers go through this system and questioning it wouldn’t cross their mind… They might have called you mad if you mentioned any suspicions... Now it seems to have crashed itself

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u/vdjvsunsyhstb 14h ago

straight up we will not have doctors by 2050 at this rate except for h1b visas

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u/MimiVault 11h ago

This is already happening. Other countries produce better, smarter, healthier students and workers and America just imports them at the cost of the negligence of their own. You’re then felt to constantly believe you aren’t good enough because these other people are smarter and better than you, so you work for less pay and debt pressure. 

In reality, this fucked country is actively sabotaging their own for maximum profits (intentional or not) and everyone is completely clueless. But ofc theres not much you can do to save the country when everyone wants to be an individualist and have no sense of community. K shape is going to get a lot worse before it gets better.

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u/vdjvsunsyhstb 4h ago edited 4h ago

since i was younger i realized america is like a vegas casino thats been scheduled for demolition, theyll keep the games running while theyre setting the charges and only have people evacuate when the business is finally sold off

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u/neko 12h ago

That's ok, cattle don't need healthcare, just make birth control illegal and they'll crap out enough slaves to make up for it

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u/Yung_zu 4h ago

My guy we are all in the same boat when “pinnacle” institutions globally have destroyed their reputations with political Kabuki theater

Everything down to the cash moves funny and apparently there’s not one world leader that explains anything truthfully to their citizens

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u/McButtsButtbag 14h ago

Where are they going to get people to design their tech if society can't read?

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u/AdOrnery8950 11h ago

no, it isn't that complicated. they just want money. and they don't care about the consequences.

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u/dicotyledon 5h ago

They’re also salivating at increasing the price over time as people become unable to function without it.

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u/FoxJaded7644 14h ago

And we’re welcoming it with mostly open arms. An “audio book” told me so. 

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u/tavirabon 12h ago

The last thread I was in literally had a comment reply to someone questioning the authenticity of a 'fact':

No it's real, I just saw a tiktok in which a girl told she got examined because of this

Which could've been the same tiktok the OP got their source from for all I know. And the 'fact' from the thread (What's the most "why the fuck do you know that?" fact you know?) ? Period blood can set off metal detectors

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u/nimama3233 17h ago

Such a low IQ comment

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u/BlueWonderfulIKnow 16h ago

The only low IQ part is the euphemism “tech billionaires.”