Kids these days with llms will never know the struggle of filling a word / page count .
Filler language will be a lost art, that hereto for, will not be practiced by our posterity in the coming generations of chatgpt indoctrinated youths. I do indeed struggle to weep for its demise though.
Bring back in person essay and short answer exams. Pencil to paper. Technology started to solve problems that didn't exist when kids started getting their own laptops in schools. We were fine having them at home and in the library. Classrooms were for thinking, learning, reading, and writing. The physical act of writing helps to digest and internalize thoughts and ideas. You betcha you'll remember something more reliably if you write it down instead of typing it.
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Kids these days with llms will never know the struggle of filling a word / page count .
Filler language will be a lost art, that hereto for, will not be practiced by our posterity in the coming generations of chatgpt indoctrinated youths. I do indeed struggle to weep for its demise though.
Who is mikey
My favorite one was increasing the font size for the ending dot on all paragraphs .
So subtle and efortless to do yet very practical.
That's an art, I for the love of god, could never get. Why use many word when few word do job?
Bring back in person essay and short answer exams. Pencil to paper. Technology started to solve problems that didn't exist when kids started getting their own laptops in schools. We were fine having them at home and in the library. Classrooms were for thinking, learning, reading, and writing. The physical act of writing helps to digest and internalize thoughts and ideas. You betcha you'll remember something more reliably if you write it down instead of typing it.
When/where I was in school, that wouldn't have counted. They counted only words >= 3 letters and excluded 'the'.
You should not use contractions in essays anyway
Or the first person
I'm not so sure people writing essays know that's a thing unless AI tells them so.
What a weird comment
Sorry. It seemed to make sense at the time.
Thou shalt not count to four, thou shalt not count to two unless proceeding to three