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The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents (fortune.com)
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[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 34 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Case in point: the inability to tell the difference between correlation and causation.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I see you spend all your time on Reddit, evangelizing big AI and tech corporations... So can you give us a hint what you think the actual problem is?

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 3 points 2 weeks ago

Two more completely disconnected statements that are presented as if there was something meaningful connecting them, is this intentional irony?

[–] tranquillow@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Evangelizing big AI and tech corporations

Weird cuz Reddit was the most anti AI place I've been

[–] XLE@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

I guess Reddit has weird niche communities for everything. Facedeer's official Lemmy profile points to a Reddit profile with comments all over "defendingAIart", "AIwar", "accelerate," and a bunch of other vehemently pro-AI places.