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He brought up the example of a child who comes to the word "horse" and says "pony" instead. His argument is that a child will still understand the meaning of the story because horse and pony are the same concept.
I pressed him on this. First of all, a pony isn't the same thing as a horse. Second, don't you want to make sure that when a child is learning to read, he understands that /p/ /o/ /n/ /y/ says "pony"? And different letters say "horse"?
He dismissed my question.
"The purpose is not to learn words," he said. "The purpose is to make sense."

This is dire, god damn.

this was the most dire bit to me

   

I have actually met people like this and been like...how could you possibly have gotten those words that wrong? you didn't even read them, you just assumed what it said?

and now I know

chatGPT-ass word prediction engine humans