← Back to context Comment by jckahn 6 hours ago Seems like we're doing fine though, yeah? 6 comments jckahn Reply larsfaye 6 hours ago Could be a doing a whole lot better. Do you think there's an abundance of critical thinking in society? Because math skills aid in that. r_lee 6 hours ago I honestly can't tell what reward there is for this "critical thinking" since the entire world is bathing in "AI will replace you"what point is there to be a human calculator if nobody rewards you for it?and I'm not talking about wealthy Bay Area tech workers doing it so that they can write their substack blogs but rather the average person esafak 2 hours ago Getting to live in a civilized society with a responsible government. Witness the counterexample. __MatrixMan__ 6 hours ago When I look at the state of software engineering, "fine" is not the word that comes to mind https://xkcd.com/2030/.If we're going to be the last generation that understands code at this level, we need leave it in a much better state before we die. bigstrat2003 5 hours ago Not really, no. It's embarrassing how many people lack the ability to do basic arithmetic. jckahn 5 hours ago Do they necessarily need to? We have ubiquitous tools for this.
larsfaye 6 hours ago Could be a doing a whole lot better. Do you think there's an abundance of critical thinking in society? Because math skills aid in that. r_lee 6 hours ago I honestly can't tell what reward there is for this "critical thinking" since the entire world is bathing in "AI will replace you"what point is there to be a human calculator if nobody rewards you for it?and I'm not talking about wealthy Bay Area tech workers doing it so that they can write their substack blogs but rather the average person esafak 2 hours ago Getting to live in a civilized society with a responsible government. Witness the counterexample.
r_lee 6 hours ago I honestly can't tell what reward there is for this "critical thinking" since the entire world is bathing in "AI will replace you"what point is there to be a human calculator if nobody rewards you for it?and I'm not talking about wealthy Bay Area tech workers doing it so that they can write their substack blogs but rather the average person esafak 2 hours ago Getting to live in a civilized society with a responsible government. Witness the counterexample.
esafak 2 hours ago Getting to live in a civilized society with a responsible government. Witness the counterexample.
__MatrixMan__ 6 hours ago When I look at the state of software engineering, "fine" is not the word that comes to mind https://xkcd.com/2030/.If we're going to be the last generation that understands code at this level, we need leave it in a much better state before we die.
bigstrat2003 5 hours ago Not really, no. It's embarrassing how many people lack the ability to do basic arithmetic. jckahn 5 hours ago Do they necessarily need to? We have ubiquitous tools for this.
Could be a doing a whole lot better. Do you think there's an abundance of critical thinking in society? Because math skills aid in that.
I honestly can't tell what reward there is for this "critical thinking" since the entire world is bathing in "AI will replace you"
what point is there to be a human calculator if nobody rewards you for it?
and I'm not talking about wealthy Bay Area tech workers doing it so that they can write their substack blogs but rather the average person
Getting to live in a civilized society with a responsible government. Witness the counterexample.
When I look at the state of software engineering, "fine" is not the word that comes to mind https://xkcd.com/2030/.
If we're going to be the last generation that understands code at this level, we need leave it in a much better state before we die.
Not really, no. It's embarrassing how many people lack the ability to do basic arithmetic.
Do they necessarily need to? We have ubiquitous tools for this.