Alright, you do have a point there. Reading docs and asking questions is a skill too, and if you haven't learned them yet then chatgpt can stunt your growth there, i agree with that much.
I still think that chatgpt, if used correctly, can be a huge boon to your education. Knowing how to interact with those bots to avoid their shortcomings and not use them as a crutch I think is also a skill worth learning.
Know what, that's stupid and reductive and not even accurate to what I said, but fuck it, yes. Yes actually. Because i value my time and sanity and other people's time and sanity. Just because i eat out every now and then doesn't mean I can't cook.
No, learning is there part where you have to think. That's not when you use the robot. You use the robot when the documentation is trash and unusable and every answer you find is out of date. You use the robot when you know exactly what you want to do and how to do it and you don't have time to trawl through the docs for the next 2 hours. You use the robot when the only gimp 2.10 tutorial on earth for how to write plugins tells you to use this funny program called gimptool but you're new to gimp dev so you look online to see what that is only to find that there's no mention of it literally anywhere besides your current tutorial and a disjointed man page where you can't find the source anywhere, and the devs are all on irc and you don't want to bother them and you're worried that they're just going to tell you to read the tutorial you already came from and you'll leave empty handed. That's when you ask the robot. It has a use, you don't have to substitute your thinking to use it.
and there are so many cases in programming where you can save hours asking a really simple question that should be easy to figure out on your own but actually isn't.
I think that's client side. Doesn't happen for me.
If anything, better education would genetically select in favor of more stupid people. If you're stupid and can get by because of a phenomenal education then guess being stupid was smart enough.
Whether what you've described is actually how things work or not (it's not) doesn't matter though. Because breeding entire populations takes thousands of years and will not solve any of our problems today. It's really not worth talking about.
A rock would probably run the USA better than either. At least it couldn't mess anything up.
... Are you arguing for or against things getting worse?
But how do I differentiate between visiting the chemist and visiting the chemist?
I've been passively worried how long it'll be until American Tienanmen square, if i even end up hearing about it.
I think things would get a bit more complicated than that, unfortunately.