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39. Lol. For us it wasn't just the various caterpillars, stink bugs and other creepy crawlers,

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Sun Mar 22, 2026, 05:58 PM

Mar 22

it was also the birds, possums and raccoons.

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Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them. (Psychology Today, 3/22) [View all] highplainsdem Mar 22 OP

Not happening here! SheltieLover Mar 22 #1

Yvw, Sheltie! There is so much pressure and hype to use AI from the AI industry, and now from the Trump regime. highplainsdem Mar 22 #4

And it's hard to escape. Most major search engines have it embedded. erronis Mar 22 #16

Its similar to spell check, unless a person takes the effort to turn it off.. BlueWaveNeverEnd Mar 23 #57

The risks, IMO, are a given and I will never embrace this dysfunctional garbage. SheltieLover Mar 22 #32

K & R Raastan Mar 22 #2

Thanks! highplainsdem Mar 22 #6

Important article Wild blueberry Mar 22 #3

You're welcome! After seeing that editorial from the U of Pennsylvania student paper yesterday, reading highplainsdem Mar 22 #46

Another skill that too many younglings have lost... GiqueCee Mar 22 #5

I can't write in cursive, either. GenThePerservering Mar 22 #7

Over the 70-odd years... GiqueCee Mar 22 #13

For what it's worth, I can't tell time on a sundial. Or use Stonehenge to schedule a harvest. JustABozoOnThisBus Mar 22 #18

Neither. I click on the receiver cradle multiple times. erronis Mar 22 #22

Whoa! GiqueCee Mar 22 #29

easy Mossfern Mar 22 #41

The reason I was told in elementary school for learning cursive is because it is FASTER progree Mar 22 #24

Personally. I like Roman Numeral clocks. Sequoia Mar 22 #44

I have the clacky electric portable typewriter with ribbon too. Sadly, no rotary dial phone, progree Mar 22 #45

And party line phones. Sequoia Mar 23 #54

Your first two sentences reveal the tenuous ground the cursive argument stands on. Ilikepurple Mar 22 #25

My wife has a Masters Degree in Special Ed... GiqueCee Mar 22 #38

I think it would be interesting to hear your wives anecdotes, but you only mentioned analog clocks in your prior post. Ilikepurple Mar 22 #47

Cursive was torture for me. hunter Mar 23 #52

I have a similar background. I didn't use cursive until I started college. Ilikepurple Mar 23 #58

I couldn't agree more. SheltieLover Mar 22 #33

IDIOCRACY becomes reality and defines a new class of fuedal peasantry. Ford_Prefect Mar 22 #8

YOU GOT IT !!!!! Stargazer99 Mar 22 #23

Unlike many, BidenRocks Mar 22 #9

A.I. stands for Artificial Insemination. Same thing for AI except no long glove is used. twodogsbarking Mar 22 #10

Just the other day I was bemoaning lost skill sets even without AI nuxvomica Mar 22 #11

Or gardening...With summer coming and prices skyrocketing,well BattleRow Mar 22 #21

We've given up on gardening; very expensive wildlife food, lol! mwmisses4289 Mar 22 #28

Yes,that's understandable. BattleRow Mar 22 #37

Lol. For us it wasn't just the various caterpillars, stink bugs and other creepy crawlers, mwmisses4289 Mar 22 #39

Food insecurity is on the rise on All fronts! BattleRow Mar 22 #43

My experience as well Mossfern Mar 22 #42

Cripes, people can't even drive cars with manual transmissions anymore. SheltieLover Mar 22 #35

Or dial a rotary phone nuxvomica Mar 22 #36

LOL Yup, check writing has gone the way of cursive, apparently. SheltieLover Mar 22 #40

Today's parents don't get it because they weren't taught the basics in school FakeNoose Mar 22 #12

Agism is an unsavory business. littlemissmartypants Mar 22 #15

Actually, quite a number of the 20 and 30 somethings I know realized they were shortchanged. mwmisses4289 Mar 22 #30

Thanks for sharing this highplainsdem. ... littlemissmartypants Mar 22 #14

Big K & R. ALL parents must read this Psychology Today report if they want thinking children to control their futures. ancianita Mar 22 #17

There is evidence to support this all over social media debsy Mar 22 #19

Just an opinion... lonely bird Mar 22 #20

IMHO AI should be highly regulated, by gov't policies, parents and ourselves. Buddyzbuddy Mar 22 #26

Jensen Huang is one seriously evil fuck. Initech Mar 22 #27

I noticed all of these in my daughter 25 years ago - long before AI. Ms. Toad Mar 22 #31

I see this with software all the time. I am not a computer scientist LisaM Mar 22 #34

Adults also lost the ability to hand print and hand embellish books... WarGamer Mar 22 #48

The article is about cognitive atrophy in adults and cognitive foreclosure in children, because of AI highplainsdem Mar 22 #49

In my line of work (copy-editing for publishers), AI's been in use for some years. Emrys Mar 22 #50

That sounds maddening, Emrys. highplainsdem Mar 23 #53

Oh, I just scratched the surface on its cranky ways, and those of publishing in general Emrys Mar 23 #56

A big, not a feature DonCoquixote Mar 22 #51

This is going to be a big problem Johnny2X2X Mar 23 #55