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Nearly one million people became citizens last year, and that doesn't count unregistered crossings. People are shooting the Darien Gap at a chance to get into the US. I am so tired of hearing about the US housing crisis with no mention
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> This is a beautiful description. I know as a teacher that I try to communicate this to my students, but also that I surely fail much more often than I succeed. Thanks. There's an element of hopelessness in trying to explain the im
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No, I've never taught a class, so it's possible that the experience of teaching as a professor would irrevocably change my opinion. However, I have spent a lot of time tutoring math and directing bands and choirs, so I'm fami
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I couldn't agree more with you. I personally will attempt to circumvent "boring, mildly effective education" by homeschooling my children (who are at present still too young to even speak in words), but homeschooling is an ug
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I don't know why you're catching downvotes, I think you're completely right. In my engineering curriculum in some cases the teachers were openly hostile to students that had a hard time understanding the material. Professors
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Nearly every educator I've ever learned from has unconsciously insisted that learning material remain sterile, and never become as funny and opinionated as this essay. For most students, "learning" is outrageously boring unti
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You know, I'm not mad at them, and I don't think they're necessarily being hypocrites. I imagine that if they really understood the engineering and chemistry around oil, they would alter either their behavior or their politic
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I know people who attend sit-in protests at Chase Bank locations over fossil fuel divestment who also fly internationally 3-4 times per year for pleasure. The cognitive dissonance and lack of engineering intuition among the general populace
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> No company wants that code, or being saddled with a few dozen teenagers, some of which are completely useless. This is an efficient summary of the social attitude I'm criticizing. People believe that children and teenagers are us
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> I'll add given that you are on HN you probably also remember and understand more from school than you realize. Maybe--my claim isn't that I didn't learn anything in school, but that what I did learn was a fraction of wha
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> Of course you produced nothing of value. Learning in school is about absorbing already existing knowledge. That's certainly how it's set up today, but I find it difficult to believe that the most optimized, useful, and produc
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Thank you for your compliment. To clarify, I'm not saying that it's possible to learn to write without writing a great deal. I certainly wouldn't have learned to write well without writing often. However, I didn't learn
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One afternoon during my senior year of college, I was procrastinating by trying to estimate the height of the stack of every assignment I'd ever completed since kindergarten, and suddenly realized that I had produced basically nothing
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> No one reads them. It's just some stupid long-tailed distribution where three of these absolutely useless fucking things gets read a few times a day (by someone that probably doesn't do anything with the information) and the
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Why do you think that?
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It's like a dark-mirror version of a really good principle in leadership philosophy, which was outlined in Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein. "Everything that happens under your command is your responsibility." If a man
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There's a heavily online right-wing presence that admires Ilich; of the people who could be described as "right-wing" I've seen that talk about Ilich, most are either hobby homesteaders or people with advanced CS/en
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> Is he actually saying that alternatives to mass education are LESS ethically tolerable than compulsory graded schools? Yes, but he's hiding his point in poor phrasing. Compulsory, graded schools are one solution for disseminating
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> You can also opt out of modernity in smaller ways, decisions like not owning a car, not watching TV, and so on. Sure, if you reduce the effects of "modernity" to only your own ability to consume goods and services. One cannot
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I don't know if I'd agree that Reason and Merit are always applied by the market, unless the market is referring to "whatever VCs can be convinced to give money to". However, the crux of what you're saying, which is
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Oh, I was thinking that the cross-checking is the point. You'd use the LLM as a "hazily thinking search function" to narrow your examination of old documents, not as a replacement for reading the documents. I don't know
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I'm not a big proponent of LLM proliferation, but I was thinking that mass review of tons of scanned documents might be exactly the sort of thing they're really useful for. Given an AI that hasn't been ruthlessly tuned to be
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This guy literally won't reply to me. I think there's something pathological going on.
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I just told you about a case of a murder in a suburb that was solved. Murderers are caught all the time in the US. Are you claiming that because police don't solve 100% of murders in the US, we should consider police fundamentally usel
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The police have shown up to mediate between my sister's abusive boyfriend and my parents, arrested him for beating her and put him in jail, investigated and caught murderers that killed in my parents' neighborhood, etc. If I had b
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What kind of society are you envisioning that can address antisocial behavior without detaining or investigating anyone?
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I appreciate this analogy, but Jobs made this work by creating a leadership culture that was obsessed with quality and craftsmanship. By all accounts he would regularly refuse to ship hardware and software that wasn't up to his standar
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Yeah, that's a good point. My introduction to coding class around 2010 covered enough material in a few lectures to take up an entire summer in 1990.
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> did we mess up somewhere and fail to convey this aspect of the hacker spirit to the youth? or are things just changing too rapidly? I think that young people today don't perceive themselves as having any free time, and so they tre
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I think the people currently named degrowthers are bad for the health of society, but the word "degrowth" doesn't necessarily refer to a policy that shouldn't be looked at more closely. Stuff like re-onshoring manufactur

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