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wtrwqyw — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:07:49 +0000

> restricting the free expression of people,

Is it? They appear to be some sort of hardcore pseudo libertarians with some nationalistic vibes. To an extent that seems to overlap with Mullvad’s declared value?

New comment by wtrwqyw in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

wtrwqyw — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:39:29 +0000

Electric typewriters were pretty widespread by the 60-70s or so it’s just that they don’t have quite as much “retro” appeal these days ( eg like cassettes vs vinyl)

New comment by wtrwqyw in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

wtrwqyw — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:33:56 +0000

> We have to notice that high stakes exams on paper worked for hundreds, possibly thousands of years

Define “worked” there are reasons we have abandoned quite a few archaic practices which turned to be highly ineffective in hindsight (and often quite misery inducing). I’m not implying that handwriting is one of them just that it’s a terrible argument.

> burden of proof is on the side saying that kids

Smacking children who fail to give a correct answer with a stick worker for thousands of years as well..

New comment by wtrwqyw in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

wtrwqyw — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:28:18 +0000

It’s rather peculiar that people are downvoting somebody sharing their perfectly valid perspective..

New comment by wtrwqyw in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

wtrwqyw — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:26:55 +0000

Exams shouldn’t probably be used for learning new information and typing is a lot more efficient and allows editing and revising so there are advantages to that.

> or whatever is the tech of the day.

Rote memorisation has been the standard technique probably for way longer that anything else so I’m not sure that every innovation is inherently inferior to what we had before

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wtrwqyw — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:21:57 +0000

Well to be fair humans had to suffer through all kinds of miserable practices over those years. Modern style of writing as we understand it didn’t really develop until the 800s or so (if not way later).

So it’s like saying that clay tablets worked just fine for 1000+ years why would we switch to papyrus? Or who needs character for vowels? Or spaces between words, it’s not like anyone reads texts silently?