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Interesting that this reads almost like an chatgpt prompt.

Lazy people have been lazy forever. I stumbled across an example of this the other day from the 1990s, I think, and was shocked how much the student emails sounded like LLM prompts: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~martinh/poems/questions....

It reminds me of the old joke that half of the students are below average…

Expect in Lake Woebegone, all of the children are above average

But that's not true, unless by "average" you mean the median.

Normally, it's all the same.

Only if the distribution has zero skewness.

Unless "normally" you mean the normal distribution, which indeed has zero skewness.

Yes, it was a admittedly bad pun.

At least those had some basic politeness. So often I'm blown away not only how people blithely write "I NEED HELP, GIMME XYZ NOW NERDS" but especially how everyone is just falling over themselves to actually help! WTF?

Basic politeness is absolutely dead, nobody has any concept of acknowledging they are asking for a favour; we just blast Instagram/TikTok reels at top volume and smoke next to children and elderly in packed public spaces etc. I'm 100% sure it's not rose-tinted memories of the 90s making me think, it wasn't always like this...

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