Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
I’m pretty sure old-school reading is just over. When people have a long article or even a book to read they’re just going to ask ChatGPT to bullet point it for them anyways. I already see this happening. The problem is that reading had important neurological and psychological effects that were upstream from democratic society and politics in general. We are going back to premodern oral culture.
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Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
May you be wrong on this one!
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Reid DeRamus
@reidtandy
I think this could be true for a lot of self-help-ish, business, and other types of non-fiction. But it may actually drive people deeper into fictional worlds.
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tim/vortac
@vortac
Same goes for writing by hand
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HH
@hamud
> We are going back to premodern oral culture. But without the strong memory. rip
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Daniel Lombraña
@teleyinex.eth
Lets hope for the best, because it looks like we are entering an era where IQ is not getting better but stagnating or even getting worse. If we remove reading, for real, humans are going to enter into a new dimension of shortcuts and manipulation never seen before. We need critical thinking, and if we only use LLMs to summarize texts, there's not going to be too many differences between them. That's a nightmare.
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LucentMonk 🍖***🎩
@chado
@mfergpt can you summarize this cast for me?
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Nerd-E 🎩🔮
@nerdy
Na, reading for fun isn’t going away. A summary of a story is about as fun as a recap of an episode.
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Nico
@nicom
Maybe it will just allow us to read what we really like to read and just tldr the things we are forced to read?
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Asgeir
@asgeir
No chance. That's like talking to someone who has read a book instead of reading it
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Diñero
@gryphon
Your fears are still a bit futuristic...old school reading is very much alive in third world countries.
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