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0c3ca83 • yesterday at 7:55 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

"Hey, Muse, read me this article". Voila, your kids know how to read. Deciphering marks on paper can be as obsolete as lightning a fire without matches, with the advent of technology.


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kdtsh • yesterday at 8:54 PM

‘Hey, Claude, make me a painting of a sunset.’ Voila, you know how to make art. ‘Hey, Chat, write me a sonnet.’ Voila, you know how to write poetry. But you don’t really though, don’t you. Text-to-speech didn’t come into existence with the advent of agentic AI, and yet you will have a hard time getting any job or being part of most communities if you are illiterate. It turns out technology did not make literacy obsolete. In any case, we already know that putting screens in front of children is harmful, so unless someone advocates harming children, using a modern computing device (touchscreen slate, keyboard and mouse, etc) as a replacement for basic education is highly suspect.

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samudrijan • yesterday at 8:36 PM

What a zero-brain statement.

Kirth • yesterday at 9:28 PM

As much as they'd know how to bake bread by buying a loaf in the shops.