the literary equivalent of:
That was the sanitisation of Roald Dahl’s books, which already happened and was likely celebrated on Lemmy.
likely
You’re just straw manning without the commitment.
I’m gardening, what are you talking about.
Could you maybe give some links for the ones who didn’t get what you’re writing about, like I did?
Yeah, those edits were idiotic, all right, thanks for sharing
But I was more keen to see who celebrated those. Although, I am sure such people probably exist not only in the Dahl Estate
It was possibly on Reddit, but you can imagine the rhetoric. I actually do think it was on Lemmy. I believe I said that the Oompa-Loompas being literal African Pygmies was a bit much, and could remember feeling that way even as a young child. I think even Mr Dahl himself might have come to the same conclusion in later life.
This is okay for people to change their views, I think it’s better to add author’s or editor’s commentary in such a case, not censor the shit out of the book
So they’re ruining the original artistic vision, dumbing down literature despite existing whithin the greatest age of information, all while possibly ruining the original message and meanings of the book. Tech bros need to walk outside, touch grass, feel the warmth of the sun on their skin, and maybe try talking to an actual human for once in their life.
I’m proud of my demon spawn
She’s a tech savvy electrical engineer who spends her working hours mucking about with semiconductors.
When she’s not at work, which seems to be pretty much all day every day, she’s out on remote hiking trails with primitive camping gear.
From this old man’s perspective, she’s living the ideal balanced life.
Computer engineer here. I’m similar, spend a lot of my time mucking w/ semiconductors & such at work - I wouldn’t quite say CompEs and EEs are “tech bros” though. Tech savvy? Sure! But tech bros I like to think are the people who are more interested in monetizing tech than actually knowing how to use it.
That said, I most certainly consider myself a demon spawn.
Yep. As much as I know, those of us with the know how aren’t actually doing these shitty things, it’s always someone else who takes a sledgehammer to a screw.
Username checks out.
I dunno - if A.I. is suggesting tech bros launch themselves into the sun, I could maybe get behind it.
But if tech bros launched themselves into the sun we would loose… Uhhhh… Genuinely I can’t think of anything they contribute to society
We would irrevocably lose quite some amount of rocket fuel and metal, for sure
hey dude, what is the prompt
I guess I closed the tab, so I forget exactly, but something to the effect of “Simplify the following text for a 5 year old” then pasted the parent text inside double quotes.
Not reading that essay
Found the apps target audience. Assuming that wasn’t satirical.
Ah you never know. Turns out I’m both being satirical and a certified moron
Schrödinger’s commenter
Well, Magibook is here for you:
What if every book was written like “50 Shades of Gray”? Or if every steakhouse only served McDonald’s hamburger patties because steak is too complicated for some folks?
Thanks, will have a wank in a McD since that’s what you suggest
(I like your dumbed down version)
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if understanding one sentence is difficult for you etc
If while reading that sentence you’re missing the tongue placed firmly in a cheek maybe consider…
The amount of adults for whom the internet is just looking to an endless stream of funny pictures is astonishingly high.
Looks like we found the target audience for that app!
This is about finding “solutions” for stupid people that can then be used to extract information and wealth from them. That’s a capitalist problem. Tech bros are merely one flavor of snake oil salesman.
no.
Or alternatively get walled off in their own part of the internet where they can only harm themselves.
It’s not the tech bros. It’s clients asking for this shit. Tech can do anything and as it progresses it will continue to be able to do anything .
It’s the Clients misusing $$ has and always been the real devil here.
I always assumed that tech bros were the client, not the developer. They’re the frat bros of the tech world. They don’t know or care what a technology does. They’re just going to slap it into anything and everything and hype it up like crazy to make that tech bubble money before it inevitably bursts.
I guarantee you, this was not developed by tech bros. Just quick buck opportunists.
Here we come Newspeak and Doublethink!
Big brother is always watching
Wow it’s like they’re actively trying to make people dumber and not even hiding it anymore
You don’t needs smarts anymore. We have calculators and AI.
Tools exist for a reason. I’ve done signal processing by hand, it sucks.
hipster engineering -
“Man I’m just saying, committing the Laplace tables to memory and working with a slide rule just hits different.”
Calculators are no replacement for smarts. They just take away the parts that don’t need actual thinking.
How is learning a new language being dumber? This is awesome.
Something like this to produce graded readers is a great idea, but I don’t see anything in the ad itself that indicates it’s for language learners. If this is for a general audience for native speakers, then it’s enabling people to avoid learning to read (and ultimately use) more complex and nuanced language, in favor of infantilizing consumers and spoon feeding them everything.
The only use case I could see this being a positive for when aimed at native speakers would be something like adult literacy programs, or maybe homeschooling for kids with difficulties learning to read who don’t have the trained, professional support that one would hope they might have in a more typical school setting. For adults who struggle with illiteracy, I could see this being quite beneficial, though. It’s something that people will often be embarrassed about to begin with, and somebody who’s feeling self-conscious about this could be demotivated by only being able to read books aimed at children. Even if they say “Screw it, I need to do this,” it can be difficult to maintain motivation and interest when the only content you can find at your reading level is written for little kids. If they could have adult materials adapted to a level that’s challenging but manageable for them, I could certainly see that being a good thing.
language evolving doesn’t make people dumber
It does if that “evolution” consists of removing large or complex words simply because they’re “too hard”
They aren’t removed because they’re too hard, they’re removed because they’re inconvenient. They are removed when there is a more succinct and/or better understood alternative, for example “evolution” doesn’t have a good alternative to replace it. Memorizing relatively obscure words isn’t intellectual, and as simple building blocks as possible can often better communicate more complex ideas. There’s a reason C is better liked than C++
But that’s not the great Gatsby that’s the ok Gatsby
Reduce teen literacy levels with this one easy step!!! Teachers hate it!!!
I love that they picked a book that is 90% nuance and symbolism for a tool that destroys nuance and symbolism…it’s like claymation Shakespeare celebrity death match.
That was a “hard book”? I fear for future of humanity.
"It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair”.
Becomes… “Things were confusing”
Old enough to remember when you’d just get the Cliff’s Notes or read the Great Illustrated Classics version.
But now you can have a computer give you an even shallower and less coherent version of the book.
“The highs were high and the lows were low. Specifically for the two cities and the people in them that this novel is about.”
