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To be honest? Yeah.
In my last job before this one I learned a lot of stuff about a topic I needed to know for that job.
But now I have a new job I don't need to know any of that stuff. So I am slowly forgetting it because I don't use it. And instead I am learning a lot of stuff about things I need for my new job.
And in the midst of all of this why would I take the time to learn something I am never going to use. At all. Ever. I have far too much stuff to learn and remember, and why I would need to learn how to plug the camshaft into the reverse socket twink-phlange?
I am not afraid of technology. It doesn't scare me. I am not sitting in a cave railing against these kids with their short skirts and their long hair and their music and "they didn't do these things in my day"
I just made what I consider to be a fairly educated judgement call that this is something I don't need to care about.
This isn't about not needing to learn. If you don't see any use for this newfangled internal combustion then why learn about whether it is a tiny horse or whatever. But this telling people with pride how little you know is almost always eyeroll worthy. Like wow very cool you don't know something...
Hold on a moment -- I don't go around with a sandwich board on my chest or emailing every person I know.
I brought it up here because I thought it relevant to the topic. But if we were talking about hockey or baseball or what makes different clouds form at different levels then I wouldn't have mentioned it.
And pride? Again I just mentioned it because it's something relevant to the topic. I could easily have said I have no clue how nuclear reactors work or how to perform open heart surgery on a human being.
Would that have been boasting about my lack of knowledge? Or does not knowing about how to perform open heart surgery seem relatively normal?
I was just making a point that a lot of people don't bother with some knowledge because it is shit they don't need to know. And right now using AI tools is in that category for quite a large percentage of the population.
This is about the person in the original post
The person in the original post didn't mention combustion engines.
Feels like it is a little about me.
Are you for real, I asked if you were like the person in the pic and you said yes lol. And the person in the pic was prideful and boasting about not knowing stuff