im convinced there is a misplaced dna strand that prevents me from drawing hands correctly
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I remember a comic I read at some point long ago, where power had gone out and a bored kid asks his grandma: "what did you do before TVs existed?" and the grandma says: "we would just sit around and wait for TVs to be invented".
I'm now using that answer everytime I see a "what did you do before ___ was invented?"
I get the point, but often the answer to "what did you do before ___ was invented?" Is "we suffered and died". Like vaccines for example.
"before tv was invented? Well we went out with other kids, where adults weren't around, and got into trouble. As we got older we started fucking, and drinking, and getting into more serious trouble."
Some of those things are pretty double-edged though. I grew up pre-Internet. Today, if a group of friends are standing around and someone says, "I heard that platypus eat bats," someone will whip out their phone and say that's bullshit in 30 seconds. Back in the day, we could ride our bikes to the library and find out, or maybe someone's parents had encyclopedias, but we usually just didn't care that much. On the other hand, because stuff wasn't right at our fingertips, we had to reason a lot more things out. I feel like our critical thinking skills were better. Someone was bound to say, "Bats? How would that work? They live in the water and bats fly around eating bugs. I'm not buying it."
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It's not snide to say "skills are developed with practise". You want to de-skill by letting an idiot machine say wrong stuff while you rot? Go ahead.
Wait do you mean to tell me that constantly slacking and taking the easy way will make me dumb and lazy?
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The best thing about being a human is that you can learn anything you want, to accomplish what you need to. Want to create an app, a framework, but don't know how to code? Guess what, you can learn how to code. Want to write a story or an essay? You can learn how to write. Learning to satiate my curiosity about something; learning something so that I can accomplish something are the best things about my life. That is how I learnt programming. I don't want anything to replace that for me, especially not some shit-generating LLM.
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."