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Comment · 4 months ago
Adult students who have had real world experience tend to take learning more seriously because they can see a context for it.
Comment · 4 months ago
Okay, I was generalising from experience; most students I've met lack intrinsic motivation. School systems typically encourage students to depend on extrinsic motivation.
Comment · 4 months ago
Students need motivation to honestly and openly talk about their doubts or lack of understanding.
Comment · 4 months ago
Tutors should be able to approximate the ZPD better than any student can. Most students lack intrinsic motivation and it's a tutor's job to help them get started.
Comment · 4 months ago
> Gemini does this weird thing where it tells you you're a genius and then immediately starts correcting everything you said.

That's a great way to get you to listen because your guard is down. Imagine if it told you you were an idiot and then corrected you.

Comment · 4 months ago
What if you omit states that depend on welfare?
Comment · 4 months ago
Nah on the receiving end an AI makes a summary of it.
Comment · 5 months ago
VLC, Blender, OBS Studio, Krita...
Comment · 5 months ago
They can just get plotters to write their homework for them.
Comment · 6 months ago
Not being as happy and being unhappy are not the same.

Regardless, you should read Robert Putnam's essay, E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the Twenty-First Century (2007). He makes it clear that social trust goes down because of it.

Comment · 6 months ago
I can't see how all the mental overhead of modern multicultural living can make you happier either.
Comment · 6 months ago
Israel would still get the US to attack Iran regardless.
Comment · 7 months ago
I'm saying that younger generations don't seem to care about realism as much as they care about having fun creating and sharing things with their friends. A large proportion of younger gamers play Roblox and Minecraft. Will they grow up and start playing more GPU-heavy games, or will they continue to play where their friends are?

Being free is exactly what has made those platforms as well as mobile games so popular. Are they going to start paying for subscriptions?

Comment · 7 months ago
> I can already see Nvidia rubbing their hands together in expectation of the massive influx of customers to their cloud gaming platform.

Roblox is not popular because of its graphics. Younger gamers care more about having fun than having an immersive experience.

Comment · 7 months ago
The paradox of the paradox of tolerance.

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