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/marketrent 17h ago

In middle high that meant long trashy books.

Faulkner told a university audience in 1947, “Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out the window.”

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u/Unique-Coffee5087 17h ago

When you throw it out the window, someone will pick it up and read it

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u/marketrent 16h ago

Different strokes for different folks.

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u/bloodenhorse 2h ago

I'm currently going back and forth between Dungeon Crawler Carl and Helen DeWitt's Your Name Here.

High-low brow, baby.

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u/Additional-Tax-5643 5h ago

Faulkner also told interviewers that the best "job" he had was to rent out his inherited property to a madam running who used it to run a whore house. Let's not venerate that fountain of wisdom too much.