educasean

Any technology can be blamed for “accelerating bad decisions”.

By this standard, no computer has ever accomplished anything, because humans built the computer. AI bubble about to burst any second now.

Learning isn't boring. Homework is incredibly boring.

They aren't assigned based on each student's understanding and mastery of the subject. They're assigned based on the lowest common denominator. It's an incredibly discouraging hoop to jump through for students who actively find joy in learning and discovering new things.

> human problems can't be solved with technology

How are you defining technology? How are you defining human problems? Inventions are created to solve human problems, not theoretical problems of fictional universe. Do X-rays, refrigerators, phones and even looms solve problems for nonhumans?

Claiming something that sounds deep doesn’t make it an axiom.

All corporations are to an extent. It’s a question of magnitude, not absolutes.

You, too, are driven by money. Yet I’m certain you maintain a set of principles and values. Let’s keep the discussion productive yeah?

I understand the ultimate end goal to be simulation of life. A near perfect replica of the real world we can use to simulate and test medicine, economy, and social impact.

I actually do not really mean what I wrote. I disliked what the commenter had to say about other people's social skills in a different thread and wanted to get one in. Not my most mature moment.

Perhaps it may help to work on your social skills with more intent. People who often find themselves disrespected at work aren't always bad performers but they do tend to have large social blind spots they themselves aren't aware of.

Your brain on calculators.

We find that people having to perform mental arithmetics as opposed to people using calculators exhibited more neural activities. They were also able to recall the specific numbers in the equations more.

... So what?

Charlie Brown does feel more like a symbol of a bygone era rather than an embodiment of the 21st century American psyche

Is this an education problem? Should the general public be more diligent in checking the sender domain of the emails they read?

Is this a UX issue? Should email clients highlight and emphasize the sender domain more than their display name?

I see no downsides. Seems like an actually useful udea.

The debate around whether or not transformer-architecture-based AIs can "think" or not is so exhausting and I'm over it.

What's much more interesting is the question of "If what LLMs do today isn't actual thinking, what is something that only an actually thinking entity can do that LLMs can't?". Otherwise we go in endless circles about language and meaning of words instead of discussing practical, demonstrable capabilities.

Google Stadia.

They had built a solid streaming platform for low latency cloud gaming but failed hard on actually having interesting games to play on it. You just can't launch a gaming platform with a handful of games that have been available everywhere and expect it to succeed.