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  • happyborghappyborg@indieweb.social
    Nov 10, 2026, 9:35 PM

    @aparrish I never shared these views and before reading your explanation thought, in my experience it's about motivation.

    I've tried teaching a few people, including myself and the impediment always seemed to be motivation. I wasn't motivated enough to learn Pascal, my ex wife too, and my now wife wasn't motivated enuf to learn HTML.

    I also think you're right, and part of the lack of motivation can also be over estimating the difficulty. But I always felt anyone can learn if they try. Few did.

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  • happyborghappyborg@indieweb.social
    Nov 10, 2026, 9:45 PM

    @aparrish this also fits with why I think people are drawn into using #LLMs.

    You need to be motivated in order to learn because the process of creating the brain connections for a new cognitive skill is *hard* and takes time. Two things we tend to dislike.

    #LLM use avoids doing "hard time" which is one reason not to use them, because not learning a discipline means you won't be able to understand, theorise, design, imagine and create in the discipline you avoided learning by prompting an #LLM.

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