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		fzzzy on March 20, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What does Alan Kay think about LLMs? Literacy isn't required if a computer can read any text. That is a huge amount of the brain that could be applied to something else.

ToucanLoucan on March 20, 2024 [–]

I genuinely haven't in some time read an opinion so horrifying as this. Well done.

RodgerTheGreat on March 20, 2024 | [–]

Do you think it would have the same psychological impact if you had to ask your cell phone to read it to you?

ToucanLoucan on March 21, 2024 | | [–]

If nothing else the irony would be painful.

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