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by yoyohello13 293 days ago
Why learn anything? I for one want my brain to be completely empty, devoid of any thought or knowledge. Then I can simply pay OpenAI to think for me.

Honestly, the trend toward anti-intellectualism in the world is very disturbing to me, and it seems AI is enabling this kind of contempt for knowledge even more.

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It's not anti-intellectualism so much as people forgetting the reason we learn in the first place. It's one of the biggest downsides of going from a world where education was largely optional to one where people are largely shoved onto a treadmill from birth to college.

So many people never stop think about why we do the things that we are simply expected to do, instead of doing other things.