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TONKAHANAH t1_j9qa660 wrote

The way I see it, a lot of lvl 1 support will get handled right on the devices at some point, kinda like the current Windows built in troubleshooter except it'll actually work. Pop up the devices dedicated Ai assistant and say "I can't load youtube, what's wrong?" and then the device will just just doing troubleshooting and sorting it out. We're not far off from some crazy detailed auto-generated automation.

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KamikazeArchon t1_j9q97ol wrote

We've been modifying our brains since we discovered alcohol. We have a very large number of ways to modify brains right now - from various psychoactive drugs to surgeries to even directed therapy (which can, over time, cause changes in neural pathways).

It's not a matter of "can/can't", it's a gradient of capability. Over time we will be able to do it more easily; in more complex, targeted ways; and with fewer side effects.

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Imaginary_Passage431 t1_j9q8ee1 wrote

Faulty analogy fallacy. Robots aren’t a race, nor a discriminated sex. They aren’t a subgroup of humans either. Not even a subgroup of animals. Don’t have conciousness or have the ability to feel (don’t answer to this with the typical argumentum ad ignorantiam fallacy). You are trying to give rights and moral consideration to a calculator. And if I see a calculator and a kitten about to be crashed by a car I’d save the kitten.

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chadhindsley t1_j9q8dpg wrote

And yet I see tons of videos of women rubbing their full nude breasts in an obvious sexual manner but it's allowed just as long as it's titled as some sort of 'instructional' milking techniques...

They better not ban hickok45... Guy is the sweetest old man who just has a joyous hobby and shouldn't be banned just because he's educating people on firearms and their history

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jedi_tarzan t1_j9q6dhv wrote

I disagree with some of this. "The struggle is the process" wafts of "I suffered, so so should you."

If our tools and technology progressed past the point of a certain test being useful, we move on and make new tests.

The math comparison is not useless. No one thinks writing and arithmetic are the same, so pointing it out isn't moving the discussion forward. The core point of the comparison is that when technology can perform part of the process, we change what it is we care about teaching. I don't know about you, but essays were often basically take-home busywork.

As far as writing essays go, LLM didn't exist when I was in school, but CliffNotes did. Sparknotes did. Enough internet to plagiarize with some clever editorializing. "Academia" has always had this problem. Some students will learn to the degree that they need to. And what industries are harmed by students fudging their essays? What jobs?

Won't those jobs also have access to the same tools? I'm in a very high level technical field and I now regularly use llm tools to get me started on templates for yaml files, terraform modules, etc. If anything, learning how to use it will be the skill.

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