I just had a conversation with a couple young (maybe 21?) guys. They seemed to be unable correlate, conceptualize, agree to disagree. Is this what is coming out of schools, because it was scary?

So I just had a conversation with a couple of people from VRchat. During the long 2h conversation in which we disagreed with a lot I was rather horrified by their inability to relate one aspect of a conversation to another. We could be talking about one topic, I would bring up a previous statement from another topic we had which correlated to what were were just talking about, and they would think i was trying to change the conversation topic and couldn't figure out why. When they brought up things I previously said they did it only to quote them literally without actually understanding how it related to the overall context. I felt like I was having a conversation with a cellphone on doom scroll. Each piece of information was in that moment, serious (like when I brought up "flat world" to point out they were taking the ridiculous as serious, and then started treating what I just said as serious), but any attempt to dig past the surface was met with scorn and ridicule. They were right, they couldn't explain why they were right, but set a higher standard from me, and refused to even discuss that it wasn't fair. It was like dealing with a bundle of preconceived notions and options masquerading as human being. I've had better "debates" with an AI. Is this what's coming out of schools or did I just have a bad experience? submitted by /u/RevolutionaryHand145 [link] [comments]