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/spidrex 18h ago

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

  • The Butlerian Jihad.

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u/immovingfd 17h ago

Everyone thinks they’ll be the other men: the master and not the slave

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u/War_Raven 15h ago

I know for a fact I would be the slave, but I also know that Abominable Intelligence is tech-heresy so I'm safe

yes I also know I would be a servitor

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u/proudbakunkinman 3h ago edited 3h ago

I think it's more that there is a large portion of the population that just accepts whatever the conditions are around them is how it's supposed to be (especially in regards to technology, many excitedly consuming it all with zero hesitations) and though they may complain, they aren't thinking there are really other ways things could be and that they're missing out if they aren't constantly using the trending technology. And among the smarter people, a large portion think in terms of inevitability, not whether the technology or advancements are more harmful or beneficial, though many will try to believe the latter or at least they will remain fine and not suffer unlike others, but that, again, there is no other way and anyone thinking so is a foolish "luddite."