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Haven't you always been able to do these same steps?

From books and guides at the library and bookstore, to "This Old House" and "Click and Clack" we have been distributing the knowledge of how to do things for a long time.

The internet just made all of that knowledge much easier to access, with the time/cost/distance dependency being removed.

Have Americans become less capable over time? Or are we just more aware of the portion of the population who simply does not put in the leg work to DIY things?

Maybe a bit of both, with a lean into those who do not know having a larger voice. As an example I saw a video yesterday of someone being a "full on foodie" followed up by someone who was calling an onion "garlic".

Does an LLM really change what COULD have always been done, or just make it more accessible for those of us who do/want to have the tool?

parent zer00eyz 1 year ago

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