You can’t wake up if you don’t fall asleep

Finally left reddit when they killed third party apps. There were a lot of people leaving Reddit at the same time for the same reason.

Different breed indeed.

When you’re good at chess, it means you’re good at strategy and thinking ahead.

When you’re great at chess, it means you’re really good at chess specifically.

I suppose strictly speaking you only need to mark the hits. If you’re not cheating, your opponent’s misses don’t really matter much.

Maybe it would be worthwhile to explicitly build the assignment around using AI, and grading on editing the result? Kinda like how research papers are graded on properly citing and presenting information that’s not supposed to be original.

If LLMs are going to be a lasting tool, maybe using them effectively is an important skill to teach. Encourage AI use in generating components, but force those components into a structure that AI struggles with, and grade based on how well the AI-generated components fit together in a coherent end product.

I remember when I was studying math in college, the upper level courses regularly gave take-home exams because all the tools and resources in the world weren’t going to help if you didn’t understand the material.

It’s not a great solution, if students are using AI to skirt learning the basics then they aren’t going to develop the skills to understand the work they’re editing. Kinda like calculators; they’re great when you’re being evaluated for more complex tasks where the arithmetic isn’t the important part, but kids still need to learn how to do the arithmetic in the first place before they automate it.

But the genie’s out of the bottle. Fair or not, teachers are going to have to adapt to test the skills that can’t be automated yet. I was around for the tail end of teaching kids how to use the card catalog in the library to do research, but everyone just uses search engines now.

I do not envy teachers right now. They have a Hurculean task before them, and I only see it getting worse as AI gets better.

They are good and I’ll die on this hill.

Be the witch you want to see in the world

Because voting is specifically a popularity contest, and most people aren’t very politically engaged.

Blue is marginally better than red, in terms of trying to secure conditions where actual action can be effective. Summarizing another commenter, you’re not voting for good vs evil, you’re determining which mainstream option is going to be more difficult to fight against and trying to ensure they don’t win.

I don’t think you can erase the acknowledgement of “no child should be killed” from the masses. The people who already believe that aren’t going to stop, and the ones who don’t aren’t going to start.

But we celebrate saving one child because, again, it’s a popularity contest.

The red voters are pretty stalwart supporters. Their voting habits don’t vary much no matter what their party does. They’ll celebrate killing 3 children because their party tells them that they were the bad kind of children.

The blue voters are much more variable. They like to think of themselves as decent, principled, thinking people. When you inundate them with the child killing, they’re more likely to stay home. And since blue is marginally better for us, that works against our purposes. Ironically, loudly condemning the killing of 2 children makes it more likely that it will be 3 children after the next election.

You’re absolutely right that they’re ghouls who don’t deserve to be celebrated. But we don’t celebrate them because they deserve it, we celebrate them to reduce the chances of getting the worse alternative.

Once the worse alternative is eliminated, and there are better alternatives that stand a chance to win by calling out the lesser evil for still being evil, we should absolutely 100% do that. But until then, I don’t want to demoralize the voters who can help stave off the greater evil until we have a viable alternative, be it an actual leftist candidate with broad appeal or a sufficiently organized revolutionary force.

They are really good, you should watch them. I think they just added the last one. They’re longer and more structured than the internet videos.

They aren’t new, they aired in the UK a couple years ago. Dropout did pick them up for their platform though.

Well yeah, sideways is still tight. Maybe it’s just my taste in wide-hipped women?

The Secret is fine, but it’s not a secret and it didn’t need to be a whole book.

The Law of Attraction is just noticing things. If you focus on something a lot, you’ll start noticing things related to it more often. Same principle behind noticing other cars with the same make and model as yours, or pareidolia. That’s it.

Baby Blue

That sounds like central planning, and the thing about that is when your bureaucracy gets big enough to test all the policies for a whole society, corrupt bastards sneak in and start meddling for personal gain.

How wide are your doors?

2012 specifically

Yeah, but…here. Follow me. You remember when everyone was pickling their own vegetables and brewing their own beer? People were growing out their muttonchops and waxing their handlebar mustaches?

The 1990s or the 1890s?

that the people most willing to laugh off a Nazi tattoo

I think “dumb 20-something marine on deployment drunkenly got a badass skull tattoo without knowing what it meant” is just really easy to believe.

Is it possible he really is a Nazi? Sure, but based on his talking points it doesn’t seem very likely.

Is he another Fetterman? Maybe, it’s possible, but probable enough to take the alternative? Probably not.