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by syberspace 3423 days ago
why yes, let's cram machine learning into everything so people don't have to learn anymore. Learning is boring and takes so much time. /s

I don't understand the love for voluntary infantilism. Why is it such an impossibility to have to learn a system before using it? I don't think anybody here would argue that using a keyboard is too difficult. But couldn't we just back it with machine learning and let that algorithm figure out what we want to type when we just hit random keys?

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>I don't understand the love for voluntary infantilism.

Because people seek leisure and ease and going against that means the competitor who recognizes this is going to beat you. Also on a more pedantic front, did you write your own operating system or create your own cpu? What does "learning the system" mean here? Its arbitrary. Even a hard code dev today would seem like a child to the guys in the 60s who had to do literally everything by hand.

>I don't think anybody here would argue that using a keyboard is too difficult.

Ever watch someone learn a keyboard for the first time? Its painful. The common layouts are questionable and lots of keys are extraneous. I dont need a sysrq or break key, thanks. Look at mobile. When I use a mobile device I either use voice or a swipe keyboard. When I'm at home I use my Google Home and Amazon Fire via voice instead of a hunt and peck virtual keyboard. Keyboards are actually fairly terrible, but right now for a lot of tasks are the least of the worst.

I don't love it, but I'm a realist. People have shown time and time again that they get sucked into stupid conspiracy theories and anti-intellectualism. They don't know basic facts like who is the VP of the USA or the leader of the UK.

At some point informed people just throw up their hands and start making it harder for people to hurt themselves or others.

Sorry but the Vice-President of the US is some peripheral guy or gal for us who are not in the US. Sure, the POTUS is obviously one of the key people in the world but the VP is not. I belive that not much people will know who the president of Italy or Germany is. In Europe we know (*conditions apply) but I would not expect anyone outside our region to have heard about Mr Gauck.
You say that in jest, but that's basically what the Swype keyboard does, ML and all.