I miss those days when we were encouraged to learn new things, improve, and expand your brain
2026-07-02 05:41 UTC
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@Chezus9247@lemmy.world 2026-07-02 05:47
I feel ya. My single straw that I hold on is: They’re losing tons of moneys. The AI-bubble probably bursts soon. I already felt like I don’t belong in this world before AI, and now AI hits even worse. Fuck that shit. :c If you want someone to talk, I’m here btw. :/
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@subOrange@lemmy.world 2026-07-02 06:09
Here is my encouragement to go and learn something new! Try something computers can’t do yet, like cooking or playing an instrument. The learning by remembering information era is long gone, but there is the opportunity to learn skills robots cant mimic yet.
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@Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-07-02 06:29
I am cut from my company because im a junior dev that still needs to learn :/
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@Regna@lemmy.world 2026-07-02 06:35
We’re still here. What you’re describing as missing is still here. We have lives, experiences and wants that may differ, but we exist and the people we love and respect are also here. Here is the world.
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@wheezy@lemmy.ml 2026-07-02 07:08
Gonna be unpopular here but here it goes anyway. The promotion of free thought and “using your brain” was a remnant of your childhood. We are (correctly to a degree) associating this with AI because it is the current evolution of working class control. However, it is not unique in its goal. Your parents and grandparents experienced this in similar ways. Sometimes the carrot and sometimes the stick. But, we romanticize the past so we focus on previous generations “having it easier”. And, again, there is truth to this, clearly. The material conditions of the current and upcoming generations have declined. But, this is only because the ruling class of society has grown more confident in their ability to distract and corral it’s laboring class. For no generation in recent history have we been encouraged to “use our brains” or “think freely”. There was just a lot more carrot previously than there was the stick. The bread and circus was better maintained. AI is not primarily used to keep you from thinking. No, the systems that existed before it worked and are working quite well for that. It may have that side effect and it’s welcome for the capitalist class. But AI is meant primarily to empower “the stick” with constant surveillance and control over each and every individual that dares to ask what happened to “the carrots”.
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@Miller@lemmy.world 2026-07-02 07:37
I am in my fifties and live in England and when I was young television was run to inform and educate. Programmes for children and adults ran at natural speeds taking their time to unfold ideas. Then business graduates took over and everything was fast and flashy but said nothing anymore. Then later the internet came and at first it was run by the technical people who had designed it and there were personal websites on any interest you might have and newsgroups where people from all over the world took time to help others in their own area of expertise. Then the business graduates took over and everything was bright and fast, ill informed and run only for profit or to profile the user which is the same thing but worse. The repeated trend here is clear and common, people who are able to create things very often have a notion of acting for the good of society. When these things do well they are overrun by a different sort of person, one who has no feeling for the common good or wellbeing, one who in fact often disdains it and is motivated only by greed and will without conscience ruin anything good for profit. The second sort of person should be identified and nullified and corrected and the first type allowed to flourish and not the reverse as is the case in the world we have allowed to grow up around us.
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@Sabrinamycarpet@sh.itjust.works 2026-07-02 11:15
You know you can use AI to help you learn right? Think about all the things you want to learn but feels too deep or daunting to start. AI can summarize for you. It can translate to English that you can understand and give you examples. You can ask it questions you might be embarrassed to ask actual people. And you can do it all right now for free. Knowledge is at its most accessible right now. It's in your interest to utilize it.