If you sent an AI generated image or a Claude transcript to 5y ago people would call it witchcraft. They would not believe you. I feel insane when people act performatively unimpressed by these things.
@meekaale@zetalyrae I like “Kafka way of seeing”. I’ve had some success by asking for things like “explain the core concepts of LAMMPS and how they relate to each other”. When it works, can be such an unlock.
The most Third World thing you can do is to question why somebody spends their time learning something that doesn't have an immediate financial benefit. There are, in fact, a small--yet dwindling--number of people who don't spend their entire life thinking of ways to "get rich".