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Birthgap – Childless World (2021) [video](youtube.com)
2 points by obscurette 1y ago|1 comments
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by obscurette 1y ago
Unfortunately it's not that simple any more. There are already very fundamental issues on which we are already very polarized, online or not. One of these is safety for example – far too many people are ready to give up any freedoms in
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It doesn't work for many reasons. For example it's completely normal for a young people to do things only because they are forced to. It doesn't matter how you customize it, how immediate your feedback is etc. I know that I&#
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by obscurette 1y ago
Are you a parent? Have you ever seen a kid growing up? 90%+ of kids wouldn't care at all about any work or learning without social pressure from parents, teachers and peers. That's the whole point of schools – to create a social p
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by obscurette 1y ago
My professor at uni said that people who have learned to search for information before the internet came along are the best at searching for information on the internet. My personal experience agrees and I'm very glad I'm one of s
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by obscurette 1y ago
I've seen gambling destroying more lives than alcohol in my lifetime. And I live in the area which is rather on top of the world by alcohol consumption per capita.
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by obscurette 1y ago
When I was in school (in seventies), all boys at least tried to learn how to use and take care of all sharp tools and machines with one up to wood and metal lathe. When I was in school now as a teacher, scissors were the only somewhat sharp
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by obscurette 1y ago
I've seen AI replacing a lot of jobs already in regulatory/consultancy business making billions. A lot of people producing paperwork for regulative etc purposes have been replaced by language models. My question – should this busi
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The more I think about this, the more disturbing it becomes [video](youtube.com)
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by obscurette 1y ago
These were popular in Soviet Union as well. At least in seventies in Baltic states where I grew up.
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The Perverse Consequences of the Easy A(theatlantic.com)
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by obscurette 1y ago
Every cultural/policy/etc change in society has huge delays. Especially in education - changes you implement have an impact 10+ years later. Culture, even if it's dying, dies slowly. Here in Estonia where I live at the moment
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by obscurette 1y ago
As someone old (60+) who was a teacher in school and thinking a lot about it: - It's mostly a cultural shift in the western world – we don't value personal responsibility any more. When I was in school in seventies, it was my resp
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A Nation of Lawyers Confronts China's Engineering State(theatlantic.com)
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Percentage of 15 years olds not reaching minimum reading skills in Germany(twitter.com)
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Scientific research has big problems, and it's getting worse [video](youtube.com)
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by obscurette 1y ago
It's not that bad in theory, but it's true that modern "no homework!", "no boring practice!" etc directions have done a lot of damage during last decades. But it answers quite well to common complaints why we a
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by obscurette 1y ago
They absolutely can live in the constant congitive dissonance state. I did 30 years of my life. Many of us did. I know it's hard to believe for people living all their life in the free world, but constant congitive dissonance was just
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by obscurette 1y ago
As a teacher – excellent description, thank you. Just to add my experience to it – I was in school in seventies and had "40 years since graduating" meeting some years ago with my classmates. Vast majority were doing well and while
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by obscurette 1y ago
I have a bunch of coworkers who paste various LLM outputs to every chat while discussing issues in production. - "LLM X told that we should try to add this into configuration file – SOMETHING_SOMETHING = false." - "There is n
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Can a Country Be Too Rich? Norway Is Finding Out(bloomberg.com)
74 points by obscurette 1y ago|126 comments
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by obscurette 1y ago
They are over-represented everywhere. We live in society where being martyr is highly valued, others are not allowed to ignore it and set their boundaries. If you do, you are an asshole and have no empathy.
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by obscurette 1y ago
As a teacher I have become more skeptical about whole maker movement. Don't get me wrong - I really appreciate what has become possible. I couldn't even dream about most of it when I grew up in seventies in Soviet Union. I use a l
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by obscurette 1y ago
In seventies when I was in school (yes, I'm old) I had a classmate who wasn't able to recognize faces. We all knew that it's a thing, accepted, that he can make errors recognizing us and didn't think much more about it.
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We're not innovating, we're just forgetting slower(elektormagazine.com)
151 points by obscurette 1y ago|133 comments
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'It's cheap but it's not disposable': why fast tech is a growing waste problem(theguardian.com)
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The Most Compelling Argument Against Tech in Schools – Sophie Winkleman [video](youtube.com)
1 points by obscurette 1y ago|0 comments
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The Memory Paradox: Why Our Brains Need Knowledge in an Age of AI(papers.ssrn.com)
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by obscurette 1y ago
I suspect that responses are altered/corrected based on what people query from popular online models. I have had several occasions that I ask some "How do I ... in X software?" question some day and model keeps hallucinating
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by obscurette 1y ago
The whole problem with China is only marginally about what it does (IP theft, manipulations of financial markets etc are real), but mostly about what the rest of the world doesn't do. Most of the world have stopped to solve the problem

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