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RockyattheTop t1_j9s7eui wrote

Reply to Return to Office - My experience & rationalization. by [deleted]

They are propping up their buddies in the commercial real estate business. That’s it period. A large one just went bankrupt today in the US, defaulted on about 1.5 billion in loans on office buildings. This is why they are making you come back, because if that sector completely collapses it’s ‘08 all over again. But on the real fuck them.

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ttkciar t1_j9s68m4 wrote

Reply to comment by Workerhard62 in What happens to the education system when AI answers our thoughts on demand? by Workerhard62

"The Matrix", like Catspaw129 said.

Early in the movie, when the gang was getting ready to yank Neo out of the matrix, Switch calls him "coppertop". What that meant wasn't explained until later, when Morpheus held up a Duracell battery, but he didn't make the connection explicit. The script depended on the audience knowing that Duracells were colloquially known as "coppertops".

Edited: I thought it was Cypher who called him "coppertop", but Catspaw129 is right, it was Switch.

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CubeFlipper t1_j9s5v9g wrote

Reply to comment by LettucePrime in Question for any AI enthusiasts about an obvious (?) solution to a difficult LLM problem in society by LettucePrime

>I know that the computing power necessary for the most successful models far outstrip what your average consumer is capable of generating.

And once upon a time a useful computer would never fit in an average person's home. Ignoring all the other ways your store -everything idea wouldn't be effective, the cost of compute and efficiency of these models is changing so fast that by the time your idea was implemented, it would already be obsolete.

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ttkciar t1_j9s3n4o wrote

Reply to comment by Workerhard62 in What happens to the education system when AI answers our thoughts on demand? by Workerhard62

People are naturally ignorant and do not know how to think well.

Filling their heads with well-integrated knowledge and inculcating habits of effective thinking requires education, a process which effectively engraves new neural pathways and remakes the child into something else.

Right now the most effective methods we have for that involves repeated mental exercises. For very young children this can be easy, because their minds are still extremely plastic, but as children grow older it grows increasingly painful. Reforging one's brain into something it's not is sharply at odds with our instinct for self-preservation. Once we have become a person, we want to continue being that person. But education remakes us into someone else -- someone better than we were.

Nobody is born with the self-discipline they need to make that happen. Part of the educational process is inculcating that self-discipline. While it is being learned, a teacher must hold them to task to make up for the lack.

If AI is to solve the problem of people being stupid bags of mostly water, it needs to identify the students' points of cognitive weakness, provide them with instruction and exercises which strengthen those points, and hold them to task practicing those exercises over and over and over until weakness becomes strength.

To prevent the student from simply walking away from the AI tutor, the AI tutor would need to hold some kind of leverage over the student, so that walking away is more painful than performing the educational exercises.

This is treading dreadfully close to dystopian AI-apocalypse territory, but that's just an illustration of how nightmarish the educational process can be. If irons in the forge had mouths, they would certainly scream as they are beaten into steel with hammer and fire. So are schools a crucible for transforming students.

Make no mistake, when we talk about AI solving this problem, we are talking about giving AI our children and a forge.

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CitricThoughts t1_j9s2ud3 wrote

Reply to comment by Workerhard62 in What happens to the education system when AI answers our thoughts on demand? by Workerhard62

Thanks, I've been thinking about the problem for years. I grew up in a rural town with terrible education and mostly had to teach myself whatever I wanted to learn, so these stories naturally attracted me to them.

If there's one thing I know, it's that technology doesn't change people. It just magnifies them. It'll be wonderful and terrible, but mostly just more.

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face_eater_5000 t1_j9s26hx wrote

Reply to comment by ArchitectNebulous in The American climate migration has already begun | Jake Bittle by Gari_305

I sympathize with you, but I'm talking about people willingly moving from environmentally more protected places like the Midwest, northern New England, and parts of NY state and PA to places like Arizona, most of Florida, Southeast Texas, and the West Coast. I think in 10-15 years, there will be a huge turnaround as temperatures rise even more, communities start fighting over water, and fires, hurricanes and other crazy weather events wreak havoc on communities.

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