Valentine

7mo

10 million people is a statistically significant segment of the population and would be used in a study outlining why reading doesn’t have to be the only foundational practice in learning or a need for humanity to continue progressing

most traditions are oral and visual

Corporate Mór

7mo

No dumbass that’s 1 in 10 million LMAO

Valentine

7mo

10 million people is a statistically significant segment of the population and would be used in a study outlining why reading doesn’t have to be the only foundational practice in learning or a need for humanity to continue progressing

most traditions are oral and visual

Valentine

7mo

I misread, but how am I dumbass for recognizing that millions of children struggle with reading which has become the only way we seem to focus on learning today (when people used to learn without books) and they are STILL discovering different social-emotional learning methods that do not rely on reading at their foundations but rather your environment, internal emotions and your teachers ability to comprehend this which can only be expressed in a visual, action sense?

Corporate Mór

7mo

That’s fine, they can still read. Don’t say they are genetically UNABLE to read. That’s horseshit

And yes I am a big fan of audiobooks for dyslexic readers

Valentine

7mo

if you have a learning disability, you are genetically predisposed to struggle with various of learning and reading is one of the hardest of this my mother is literally writing a dissertation on this

Valentine

7mo

they take away TIME from life. of course reading for learning or as your choice of entertainment purposes is still important to the human condition

I’m saying, would you rather sit and read a 1000 page book for 2 weeks or take a vacation with your family for 2 weeks? Which one is going to bring more meaning to your life in 30 years? The random facts you found on page 750, or the life experience you had with your family in those weeks?

BrainWorms4U

7mo

Can you not read on vacation or..

Tf does this hypothetical have to do with AI

Corporate Mór

7mo

Too bad you can’t read because that’s not what you said!

Valentine

7mo

AI is taking us away from humanity like many of our other resources have as well. we don’t even function within oral/auditory traditions anymore which is why so much African/European history is dead and gone because it’s easy to burn a library

there is no humanity on white and black texts

I’d rather go to Ethiopia and speak to a priest about religion in the early 1900s and experience the baptism of Christ than read about it in a book or have AI recreate it for me

Corporate Mór

7mo

Haha you know they read the newspaper right?
roughly 1 newspaper for every 3 people, or a household penetration rate of ~90%
Everyday plus Sunday (biggest day - 50 million+ circulation)

Weekday papers were typically 12 to 24 pages for major papers (e.g., New York Times, Chicago Tribune)
Sunday editions chunky boys were often 40 to 60 pages, sometimes more

Assume:
Weekdays: 6 days/week x 52 weeks = 312 issues x 18 pages = 5,616 pages
Sundays: 1 day/week × 52 weeks = 52 issues × 50 pages = 2,600 pages

A dedicated daily reader in the 1940s could be consuming over 8,000 pages of newspaper per year, just from a single paper, nevermind multi editions

Won’t bore you with the rest of the Maths but that’s about 27 books a year in 2025 lol

The average adult in 2025 in the US reads maybe 8 to 12 books per year, so a 1940s newspaper reader was reading 2 to 3× more pages than most modern book readers

And they were just reading the NEWS. Yet they found time to do both

Valentine

7mo

then I guess I’ll keep being a dumbass? lol. have a blessed day

Valentine

7mo

they take away TIME from life. of course reading for learning or as your choice of entertainment purposes is still important to the human condition

I’m saying, would you rather sit and read a 1000 page book for 2 weeks or take a vacation with your family for 2 weeks? Which one is going to bring more meaning to your life in 30 years? The random facts you found on page 750, or the life experience you had with your family in those weeks?

Valentine

7mo

AI is taking us away from humanity like many of our other resources have as well. we don’t even function within oral/auditory traditions anymore which is why so much African/European history is dead and gone because it’s easy to burn a library

there is no humanity on white and black texts

I’d rather go to Ethiopia and speak to a priest about religion in the early 1900s and experience the baptism of Christ than read about it in a book or have AI recreate it for me

Valentine

7mo

humanities purpose is to work our land for food and survival, not just sit around lazy until you deflate and die lmfao

pussy bacon

7mo

It’s 2025 books are obviously obsolete 💀

Jbreezyondeck

1y

I’m ngl I spend 75% of my internet time on this site because it’s a reminder of the internet we grew up on