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GenZ grads say college degrees a waste of time/money as AI gets into workplaces

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Re: GenZ grads say college degrees a waste of time/money as AI gets into workplaces

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Your comment made me look into the whole mess: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden_laptop_controvers... (of course Wikipedia is probably "manufactured narrative", right?). Looks like it's another attempt of finding dirt, but whoever was doing it, put so much of made-up dirt in that laptop, that proper journalists saw it as an "Elvis spotted with aliens" story, even NYPost journalists didn't want anything to do…

So on the one hand the New York Post is "a rag" as nicbou said, but on the other hand its reporters' judgments are reliable. Got it. If you'd bothered to keep reading in Wikipedia, you'd have seen (from after all the shouting subsided): >Former Politico reporters Marc Caputo and Tara Palmeri said in January 2025 that, because of "dumb decisions of cowardly editors", they were told "Don't write about the laptop, don't…

> So on the one hand the New York Post is "a rag" as nicbou said, but on the other hand its reporters' judgments are reliable.

Another way to look at it is that the story stank so much, even NYPost reporters (who are probably used to the gutter journalism) didn't want their name near it.

Re: GenZ grads say college degrees a waste of time/money as AI gets into workplaces

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your comment made me look into the whole mess: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden_laptop_controvers... (of course Wikipedia is probably "manufactured narrative", right?). Looks like it's another attempt of finding dirt, but whoever was doing it, put so much of made-up dirt in that laptop, that proper journalists saw it as an "Elvis spotted with aliens" story, even NYPost journalists didn't want anything to do…

>of course Wikipedia is probably "manufactured narrative", right? Wikipedia is no oracle they only uses content from sources they view as legitimate and lock anything people disagree with. Its a narrative echo chamber by design

Do you have evidence for that or are you just in the business of accusing things online?

How would you structure a comittee if not split up among democratic countries?

Re: GenZ grads say college degrees a waste of time/money as AI gets into workplaces

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AI stands for Actually Indians. Office jobs are moving to India.

I don't get this meme. Who is doing this? To the extent I'm seeing anyone successfully replaced en masse by LLMs, it's Indian IT consultancies.

Albertons/Safeway is laying off my relative and a bunch of others and moving their work to India.

Re: GenZ grads say college degrees a waste of time/money as AI gets into workplaces

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>of course Wikipedia is probably "manufactured narrative", right? Wikipedia is no oracle they only uses content from sources they view as legitimate and lock anything people disagree with. Its a narrative echo chamber by design

Do you have evidence for that or are you just in the business of accusing things online? How would you structure a comittee if not split up among democratic countries?

I don't see a reason to prove water is wet on the internet. Just observing any controversial topic should make this evident.

Have a section with a counter perspectives. The fact Wikipedia tries to frame itself as the one true and correct perspective even with topics where opinions can decide what those are.

Re: GenZ grads say college degrees a waste of time/money as AI gets into workplaces

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have evidence for that or are you just in the business of accusing things online? How would you structure a comittee if not split up among democratic countries?

I don't see a reason to prove water is wet on the internet. Just observing any controversial topic should make this evident. Have a section with a counter perspectives. The fact Wikipedia tries to frame itself as the one true and correct perspective even with topics where opinions can decide what those are.

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