What happens if the entire generation is students like this?

You can't believe your lying eyes!

I'm so sick of this trope. The point of numeracy is not in case you're suddenly caught without a calculator, although longhand arithmetic is definitely a good skill to possess.

I mean, kinda, in that today's tech leaders consider themselves god-kings, and not, like... people who sell word processing CDs at Circuit City.

Who could possibly be miserable amidst disease and authoritarianism?

The question reveals the problem, a victim outlook. You have no responsibility or agency, and your feelings justify it. It's not only bs, it's unhealthy and self-defeating. The outcome is predictable.

Because as we all know, if you can't do something perfectly every time, you might as well not even try.

Except calculators actually do something useful and return the correct results, a crucial departure from the functionality of LLMs.

You need to be able to read to use an LLM (the second "L" is particularly salient).

Actually voice

Did giving teachers guns and reducing their salaries not fix it?

In the old days, when we decided something was bad for society at large, we'd handle it with laws. How quaint.

And the incoming Cabinet has a collective net worth 3000x greater than the current Cabinet.