[analognoise]

You doth protest too much! It’s clear that things can still be “inexpensive” but require deep mental work - taking a course to understand Calculus is work, and it could all be done with a $100 calculator. To minimize you, personally, working at it so you understand the very movements of the Spheres in Heaven, simply because it can be done on a cheap calculator, is the deep anti-intellectualism.

The knowledge has worth; we should be cheering that it is cheap so that we can all partake in it, like the Gutenberg press made having our very own copy of Thucydides a simple thing. We should demand more of the deep well of culture and thought to which we are heirs, because its transmission and reproduction is so cheap! Not less.

It is embarrassing to want less understanding, less learning, and less depth, because you do not understand the value of what you can learn. It indicates a deep personal failing, and no short-circuit of “woke” will assuage it.

Bleats the sheep: “woke, woke.”

[simianwords]

> It is embarrassing to want less understanding, less learning, and less depth, because you do not understand the value of what you can learn. It indicates a deep personal failing, and no short-circuit of “woke” will assuage it.

? It’s the Silicon Valley that made LLMs that are now used to create more understanding. You wrote a lot of words with close to nothing to say.