please learn languages a new way cuz this is just foul
In between bites of al pastor tacos and sips of a margarita, Duolingo billionaire Luis von Ahn talks about how AI will make some jobs disappear. “It’s a tough situation that'll affect the poor, the less educated. And not just in the U.S., but in poor countries.” Free: archive.ph/2024.09.24-1...
Duolingo’s Guatemalan Immigrant Founder Luis von Ahn Is Now A Billionaire
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But the owl's tiktoks/
Very curious to see the Vann diagram overlap of “Yeah, AI is going to cause some people to lose their jobs” with “We can’t do single payer healthcare because think of all the poor people who would lose their job at the insurance companies”
Duolingo is absolute garbage for anything beyond surface level phrase learning
I love that the duolingo guy is a comprador that's totally based and not at all fasciste (Germans hiding in Latin America, very not sus at all)
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Quickest uninstall ever.
Been desperately barking up the "non-AI alternatives to Duolingo" tree for like a year or so (ever since they announced their AI pivot)
There are dozens of human language tutors who can be hired for online classes. If you can afford that, it's a much better alternative.
D’accord!