Fuck AI

These all seem like problems easily avoided if internet access and devices weren’t allowed

Believe it or not, cheating was very much a thing before the internet and before electronic devices.

Story time:

I tried to cheat on my high school's final exam. Well, I didn't try to cheat, but rather I wanted to prepare cheat-sheets in case my memory failed me during the exam - but otherwise I intended to try and take the tests fair and square.

But... getting caught cheating carried a really heavy penalty in those days. So I decided to prepare the ultimate cheat-sheets that I could not be spotted consulting: I wrote them in Braille, so I could stick them under my desk and read them with my fingers during the exam.

But I quickly discovered that Braille is really hard - both reading and writing, both in long form and abbreviated forms. But I'm nothing if not persistent. So I learned basic Braille in the course of 6 months during my senior year.

On the day of the exam, I had spent so much time preparing my cheat-sheets that I knew them by heart, and I didn't need them 🙂 But I spent the rest of my life volunteering my time in various associations for the blinds - one of the very few visually-abled volunteers who could read Braille for some odd reason 🙂