It is not "revisionist history nonsense". Lockdowns were pretty brutal, lasted almost 18 months total, and several people committed suicide over it.

> I remember this, I was there

You were not there! You were at Alaska!

Like celebrities claiming "we are in this together" from their mansions!

> Staying at home with Grandma and Papa

Lockdown prevented relatives visits.

> Pandemic was pretty traumatic here in the US, at least a million people died last time I looked at it.

Millions die every year, that is normal for a country with 350 million people!

> You know what my kids don't have? My kids don't have a smart phone. You know what my kids don't have? Unlimited access to devices.

My kid did not had device before pandemic, we got tablet for lockdowns. My kid was social and full of energy, it always wanted to play outside and climb trees. Two years of isolation, in tiny apartment were pretty bad!

Now it does not want to go outside, it does not want to socialize! It adapted and got new hobies.

> Largely, I think it is the parents though

Yes, i blame myself. For not ignoring lockdowns and not fighting back! Against sociopaths who enforced this bs!

Perhaps teaching defense against modern totalitarian state is far more important?

We will have a color flip after next election, all will be the same, but sudenly goverment and authorities will be the best think since sliced bread.

It is just good old misandry!

And we can not just change childrens habits, after we forced them to sit at home for 2 years with nothing but youtube! They missed key developmental phase!

And there is a strong move towards useless subjects like black history and oppression studies!

Anyone who says otherwise is not scientist!

So experts also lied about masks!!!

So many people died because of those lies!!!!

They spread misinformations!!!

Like toddlers!

My day job is to cleanup mess left over by "experts". They may have very deep understanding, but code they leave behind is full of bugs and security holes.

If authors understood them, why most of their predictions were wrong? Time to decompose spike proteins, side effects, distribution through brrast milk....

Event the most basic promise 100% protection against infection was wrong! They lied and we allowed infected people into hospitals!

There is tons of evidence against that. Someone armed with just LLM, can have much better uderstanding of problem then "meat brain expert" who studied the subject for decades.

We seen in last decades how "experts" are clueless, and how they predictions work.

> don’t really care whether LLM’s can produce code more and better than me

So on one side there is monopoly on "deep understanding", but on other no one really cares about quality?

Perhaps some people do not belong at university? It is just a waste of everyone time, to insist 50% of population studies until 25 years old.

I think it just shows very sad state of the industry.