Comment by stavros
16 days ago
There was some hope with the rise of equestrianism that people will go back to be able to shoe horses.
Guess it was just a matter of time till someone figured out how to use "cars" to resume encouraging being unable to to a basic farrier job.
Except cars were faster than horses, while audio or video content is much slower than reading.
Cars also have legs while audio doesn't, a point which is equally irrelevant. If people don't need to read, they don't need to read, and no matter how much a random Internet commenter wants them to need it, it won't change anything.
Skills atrophy for a reason. It's fine to let them. You may as well be lamenting the lost art of long division.
> Cars also have legs while audio doesn't, a point which is equally irrelevant.
That's what a LLM would say :)
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You can multitask with audio content, so you can consume content when you can't sit down to read. And you can even potentially consume more volume like on a long daily commute.
It's not the case that it's worse.