[welshwelsh]

Is that just an LLM thing? I thought that as a society, we decided a long time ago that competence doesn't really matter.

Why else would we be giving high school diplomas to people who can't read at a 5th grade level? Or offshore call center jobs to people who have poor English skills?

[burnte]

It's been a 50 year downward slope. We're in the harvest phase of that crop. All the people we raised to believe their incompetence was just as valid as other people's facts are now confidently running things because they think magical thinking works.