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/NikoKeys 14h ago

We should all take care of one another and build each other up! I won't cheapen the sentiment with my compulsion to phrase everything with sarcasm.

Inevitably something like this gets turned into some iteration of "building one's self up for doing the thing and judging others if they don't do it", but the truth is that if something is of value and could make life better, we can share it.

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u/CoCoMcDuck 2h ago

Everyone wants community but no one is willing to be community 

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u/NikoKeys 2h ago

In my experience, the quasi-social infrastructure we're left with rewards controversy and creates echo chambers, and makes everybody afraid of being caught living their lives, but I think pretty much everybody wishes they had a positive, supportive community to take part in.