Raw LLM Responses

Literacy is downstream of our crumbling education system not autocorrect or AI. 40% of 4th graders and 33% of 8th graders read below basic proficiency levels, the lowest since 1992. 44m Americans are unable to read a children’s book. The real comparison is to coding. We used to have to code in 1’s and 0’s. Then assembly code came along (a logical abstraction of the underlying binary) and you kinda had to know both for a while, but eventually mostly assembly. Then came higher level languages like C came along and you still had to know assembly for some things and some applications required you to know the underlying binary, but for the most part just C. The same happened with even further abstracted coding languages. Just because things are abstracted away, doesn’t mean that 1) some people won’t have to know how the underlying layers work and 2) you don’t still have to reason about the prevailing layer of abstraction. What happened along the way of that abstraction? An exponential increase of the number of people who could learn to code and build things with it. Only so many people have the patience and intellectual rigor to code in assembly, but it still happens and there are people who do it (particular for graphics engines, AI training, etc.). We are thinking machines and will continue to be. AI will have a similar exponential increase in the number of people who are able to utilize the intelligence within that system for their benefit. Side note: AI will have a massive impact on [the quality and the distribution of education](https://youtu.be/hJP5GqnTrNo?si=WfkK3zm3_fiQ34Fd). AI is now an adaptive, infinitely patient, super intelligent tutor that can make education both engaging and tailored to each student.