. . . .not just "garbage" in providing minimal information but also in the poster's seeming inability to string coherent thoughts together. Then I came across this from the NYT:
***"After years of studying how human beings write, the cognitive psychologist Ronald T. Kellogg concluded that drafting a basic persuasive essay was as mentally taxing as digging a ditch was physically exhausting.
Writing well requires a command of vocabulary, spelling and grammar. It forces writers to comprehend a subject, to sift through their working memory of that topic, to organize and plan. Writing an essay is so difficult that a person in the throes of it can do hardly anything else — as anyone who has shushed a spouse or child while trying to compose a decent sentence can attest.
Very few people would volunteer to dig a ditch. Likewise, it is hard — almost impossible, many English teachers will admit — to turn a reluctant writer into an enthusiastic one."***
The Founder's new "preview" feature is a great new addition but I suspect that few posters (myself included) actually preview their work before posting.
So -- my take away is that while going to a strip club might be "hard", writing intelligently about one's visit post hoc is arguably harder! LOL! What do other's think?
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The follow up NYT article is about “cognitive paralysis” exacerbated by AI. People (primarily students) are relying on AI for the simplest writing tasks, and as a result are losing the ability to form complete and coherent thoughts and arguments.
I work with people between the ages of 16 and 30 every day. When I want intellectual stimulation I talk to a potato.
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