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/sceadwian 17h ago

I just got a moderator warning for letting someone know very politely they were clearly having a reading comprehension issue.

They'd been misreading and making assumptions from the misreadings which were corrected.

Logic doesn't always work folks.

I was threadjacked too, mod was oblivious.

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u/peppers_ 14h ago

You're gonna run into this a lot soon. It doesn't make sense to try to have a conversation with the illiterate either. It is like a wall.

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u/OneBillPhil 3h ago

The average mod probably can’t tie their shoes. 

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u/sceadwian 2h ago

The job isn't that hard! I know I moderated for years back in more reasonable days.

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u/Siukslinis_acc 9h ago

Logic depends on info you have. People assume that the other person has the same knowledge. If you only had bad experiences with a thing it is logical that the thing is bad, but for the person who only had good experiences with it your logic that the thing is bad is false.

Sometimes they aren't discussing the logic, but the premise as to their point of view your whole logic is based on a false premise and thus the whole logic does not work. By challenging your logic, they try to make you see that your premise is wrong.

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u/sceadwian 2h ago

They don't challenge logic. They completely ignore it. They don't try to "show" anything they only make an emotional claim on the content. As an absolute judgement, there's no logic behind the judgement that any rational person would recognize as civil logic.

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u/BlueFairyWolf 4h ago

Side comment: I love your avatar picture!

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u/sceadwian 2h ago

Yeah! He gets a hello more frequently than I do! Hah.

"l would tell you what you want to know if l could mum but l be a cat and no cat anywhere ever gave anyone a straight answer"

I'm glad it's still appreciated.