Comment on America needs a moratorium on AI data centers

• grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You raise a good point.

  I’m not that smart myself — I just look up words I don’t know and then I… know them.

  But I suppose we aren’t all motivated by the same desires. Like I still suck at directions despite living here all my life

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  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m not that smart myself — I just look up words I don’t know and then I… know them.

    That makes you smarter than most americans…

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    • WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Less lazy, maybe. “Smart” seems like a bit of a nebulous term to me. I remember seeing some utterly ingenious posts in the r/redneckengineering sub, and then there are intellectuals who can’t cook spaghetti.

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  • impairedimperator@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    One thing I found out recently is that the reading standards for American schools almost explicitly discourage that. They literally teach kids to guess what the word means based on context, or just skip over that word and move on.

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    • WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That must be more recent because I most certainly was encouraged to look things up in school. But then I’m Gen X.

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• 20cello@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ignorant masses is what capitalists want

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  • ComradePenguin@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes, which is why we should prioritize educating peoole about politics, not needlessly “complex” words.

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