Tiresia
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- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 5 weeks ago:
It can and it has done creative mathematical proof work. Nothing spectacular, but at least on par with a mathematics grad student.
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 5 weeks ago:
Why is a baseline bulk level of education the goal? People are different, people live in a society where they can ask others for help. People don’t retain most of what has been crammed into their heads, and the fact that they were threatened with social exclusion if they didn’t cram it in gives many of them an unhealthy attitude towards knowledge that will take them decades to unlearn. Many subjects are propagandistic or taught in a way that makes them irrelevant for the rest of one’s life.
People learn how the mitochondria work but not how to recognize a stroke. How to write a formal proof about triangular equalities but not how to untangle a legal document. How to recognize a baroque painting but not how to make art you enjoy. How to compete at sports but not how to listen to what your body needs. How to memorize what an authority says but not how to pick apart lies.
So sure, let everyone follow a completely different education. Let them learn things at their own individual pace, let them focus on the things they care about and let them use their own interest as a guide. Maybe some will be functionally illiterate, but that is already the case.
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 5 weeks ago:
That’s really not true. Paper production takes a lot of (often non-renewable) energy, ink usually consists of non-renewable chemicals, paper is often harvested from nonrenewable destruction of forests (especially in the US with Trump’s plans to cut down national forests), paper production belches a lot of pollution into the air and pollutes a lot of water, etc.
- Comment on Blizzard's Overwatch Team Just Unionized: 'What I Want To Protect Most Here Is The People' 1 month ago:
Besides, better working conditions for the team means more mentally healthy workers means a better and more creative product.
- Comment on Apex Legends writer gets laid off 24 hours after the character she wrote is revealed, because that's what the games industry in 2025 looks like 1 month ago:
Sorry for not engaging with the content, but please add paragraph breaks. kthx
- Comment on Full Circle 1 month ago:
Tell that to the 10% of the German population that didn’t survive WW2.
- Comment on We’ve unlocked a holy grail in clean energy. It’s only the beginning. 2 months ago:
Click the “paywall” link in the post body.