Seems like we're doing fine though, yeah?

larsfaye 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Could be a doing a whole lot better. Do you think there's an abundance of critical thinking in society? Because math skills aid in that.

I honestly can't tell what reward there is for this "critical thinking" since the entire world is bathing in "AI will replace you"

what point is there to be a human calculator if nobody rewards you for it?

and I'm not talking about wealthy Bay Area tech workers doing it so that they can write their substack blogs but rather the average person

Getting to live in a civilized society with a responsible government. Witness the counterexample.

	▲	r_lee 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		that's not something you can accomplish just by practicing critical thinking yourself, you'd need to convince a majority of the population to do the same. we can vent here but it's not gonna change things, a wider cultural shift is needed. and even then I don't see it guaranteeing a "responsible govermment", e.g. see PRC China for example

__MatrixMan__ 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

When I look at the state of software engineering, "fine" is not the word that comes to mind https://xkcd.com/2030/.

If we're going to be the last generation that understands code at this level, we need leave it in a much better state before we die.

Not really, no. It's embarrassing how many people lack the ability to do basic arithmetic.

	▲	jckahn 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Do they necessarily need to? We have ubiquitous tools for this.