In my last job before this one I learned a lot of stuff about a topic I needed to know for that job.
But now I have a new job I don’t need to know any of that stuff. So I am slowly forgetting it because I don’t use it. And instead I am learning a lot of stuff about things I need for my new job.
And in the midst of all of this why would I take the time to learn something I am never going to use. At all. Ever. I have far too much stuff to learn and remember, and why I would need to learn how to plug the camshaft into the reverse socket twink-phlange?
I am not afraid of technology. It doesn’t scare me. I am not sitting in a cave railing against these kids with their short skirts and their long hair and their music and “they didn’t do these things in my day”
I just made what I consider to be a fairly educated judgement call that this is something I don’t need to care about.
This isn’t about not needing to learn. If you don’t see any use for this newfangled internal combustion then why learn about whether it is a tiny horse or whatever. But this telling people with pride how little you know is almost always eyeroll worthy. Like wow very cool you don’t know something…
Hold on a moment – I don’t go around with a sandwich board on my chest or emailing every person I know.
I brought it up here because I thought it relevant to the topic. But if we were talking about hockey or baseball or what makes different clouds form at different levels then I wouldn’t have mentioned it.
And pride? Again I just mentioned it because it’s something relevant to the topic. I could easily have said I have no clue how nuclear reactors work or how to perform open heart surgery on a human being.
Would that have been boasting about my lack of knowledge? Or does not knowing about how to perform open heart surgery seem relatively normal?
I was just making a point that a lot of people don’t bother with some knowledge because it is shit they don’t need to know. And right now using AI tools is in that category for quite a large percentage of the population.
Are you for real, I asked if you were like the person in the pic and you said yes lol. And the person in the pic was prideful and boasting about not knowing stuff
Yes, you should be ashamed. As a tool that you probably depend on every day, you need to have some sort of basic understanding, to do basic troubleshooting, and to have a vague understanding what your mechanic tells you
One could say the same about the TV, about the internet, about block cypher encryption, about the economy, about the local sewage system, about the local water and electricity systems, about all sorts of things that we rely on every day.
Oh then there’s the boiler, the cooker, the microwave, the fridge, the telecommunications network…
At what point do I go “huh – maybe I should leave this up to people who went to school to learn about it” rather than trying to learn even the basics about everything that could go wrong in my life when there are CLEARLY people who know more about it than I do and are paid to know more about it than I do?
Some people are very proud of not knowing things
There’s a difference between not knowing something because of ignorance and not knowing something because you know you don’t need to know it.
I have no idea how to rebuild a combustion engine.
Is that something of which I should be ashamed? Or something I have actively chosen not to learn because when will I ever need to know it?
Would you be the sort of person to proudly proclaim their lack of knowledge about combustion engines at the time they became a thing?
To be honest? Yeah.
In my last job before this one I learned a lot of stuff about a topic I needed to know for that job.
But now I have a new job I don’t need to know any of that stuff. So I am slowly forgetting it because I don’t use it. And instead I am learning a lot of stuff about things I need for my new job.
And in the midst of all of this why would I take the time to learn something I am never going to use. At all. Ever. I have far too much stuff to learn and remember, and why I would need to learn how to plug the camshaft into the reverse socket twink-phlange?
I am not afraid of technology. It doesn’t scare me. I am not sitting in a cave railing against these kids with their short skirts and their long hair and their music and “they didn’t do these things in my day”
I just made what I consider to be a fairly educated judgement call that this is something I don’t need to care about.
This isn’t about not needing to learn. If you don’t see any use for this newfangled internal combustion then why learn about whether it is a tiny horse or whatever. But this telling people with pride how little you know is almost always eyeroll worthy. Like wow very cool you don’t know something…
Hold on a moment – I don’t go around with a sandwich board on my chest or emailing every person I know.
I brought it up here because I thought it relevant to the topic. But if we were talking about hockey or baseball or what makes different clouds form at different levels then I wouldn’t have mentioned it.
And pride? Again I just mentioned it because it’s something relevant to the topic. I could easily have said I have no clue how nuclear reactors work or how to perform open heart surgery on a human being.
Would that have been boasting about my lack of knowledge? Or does not knowing about how to perform open heart surgery seem relatively normal?
I was just making a point that a lot of people don’t bother with some knowledge because it is shit they don’t need to know. And right now using AI tools is in that category for quite a large percentage of the population.
This is about the person in the original post
The person in the original post didn’t mention combustion engines.
Feels like it is a little about me.
Are you for real, I asked if you were like the person in the pic and you said yes lol. And the person in the pic was prideful and boasting about not knowing stuff
Yes, you should be ashamed. As a tool that you probably depend on every day, you need to have some sort of basic understanding, to do basic troubleshooting, and to have a vague understanding what your mechanic tells you
One could say the same about the TV, about the internet, about block cypher encryption, about the economy, about the local sewage system, about the local water and electricity systems, about all sorts of things that we rely on every day.
Oh then there’s the boiler, the cooker, the microwave, the fridge, the telecommunications network…
At what point do I go “huh – maybe I should leave this up to people who went to school to learn about it” rather than trying to learn even the basics about everything that could go wrong in my life when there are CLEARLY people who know more about it than I do and are paid to know more about it than I do?
Every one of those, you should know how to operate them, have done basic knowledge how they work, and be able to troubleshoot basic problems.
And yes, most importantly you should understand when it’s a user issue and when