I also think it’s the specific loss of WRITING ability, not just reading. WRITING is arguably more radical, and it’s that skill that LLM usage is most (?) chipping away at.
Reminds me of the critics of teaching writing in 18th-cent Sunday schools in Thompson’s Making of the English Working Class
This gets to a key point that @mattseybold.bsky.social has made on American Vandal: industrial capital wished to create mass literacy through institutions like those detailed below to control workers. Tech capital wants to destroy mass literacy via replacing critical thought w AI to control workers.
Adam Bursi
Asheesh Kapur Siddique
It’s very telling that billionaires have moved from trying to build influence by funding schools, the arts, libraries, or even good works to just dumping money into various mouthpieces
