If we assume arguendo that ChatGPT is always correct, then it's still just a chat bot, and has some fundamental limitations in how it can interact with a student.
It's limited to displaying text or reading with a tts, and being interacted with using voice recognition or text. It can't see. It can't hear (it might hear words if it has voice recognition, but nothing else). It can't hear emotions. It can't see the look on someone's face. It has no body, it can't gesture, it can't draw (another solution can draw, but it isn't as impressive as chatgpt yet in a lot of ways), it has no sense of the energy in the room, it has no sense that someone is interested or not, it generally isn't going to be driving the lesson, it doesn't have the attention span to follow a short-term or long-term lesson plan.
So I think it'll be like a lot of things -- a tool, but nowhere near an apocalyptic tool.
Now, on the other hand, I think teachers should be more concerned that a lot of the people having kids don't necessarily trust public education is going to help their kids. Not only is the number of kids in general collapsing, but of those homeschooling, charter schools, and private schools are booming.
It's limited to displaying text or reading with a tts, and being interacted with using voice recognition or text. It can't see. It can't hear (it might hear words if it has voice recognition, but nothing else). It can't hear emotions. It can't see the look on someone's face. It has no body, it can't gesture, it can't draw (another solution can draw, but it isn't as impressive as chatgpt yet in a lot of ways), it has no sense of the energy in the room, it has no sense that someone is interested or not, it generally isn't going to be driving the lesson, it doesn't have the attention span to follow a short-term or long-term lesson plan.
So I think it'll be like a lot of things -- a tool, but nowhere near an apocalyptic tool.
Now, on the other hand, I think teachers should be more concerned that a lot of the people having kids don't necessarily trust public education is going to help their kids. Not only is the number of kids in general collapsing, but of those homeschooling, charter schools, and private schools are booming.
I pretty routinely got my hands on Atari 2600s back in the day because when you're a kid, you take what you can get and they were all around yard sales.
The problem right now is that the ecosystem is set up to favor ultramassive legal constructs. Relying on an imperfect human method to directly intervene I think is doomed to fail, which is why I'd prefer coming up with a method that puts increasing pressure on businesses as they grow so they will be naturally inclined to reach an equilibrium in the market rather than trying to become the one business to rule them all.
I agree with that, and I think the way you limit the power of business is to start eliminating the regulations that make them more than just the people who own it. No special protections, no special rules that apply just to businesses, if you're a company it's just a convenience to keep the resources of the owner who is ultimately the conduit through which the company's existence flows, and to whom consequences for the company's actions will flow back.
I'd really like to see more people contributing to the Lemmy/lotide part of the fediverse instead of staying in the reddit ecosystem.
Community forums used to be a thing and still are in some instances. It would take things to a new level if those forums could be hosted by the communities they serve but also be accessible to everyone through the fediverse they already participate in so you get benefits of distributed platforms but also the aggregation of unified platforms.
Community forums used to be a thing and still are in some instances. It would take things to a new level if those forums could be hosted by the communities they serve but also be accessible to everyone through the fediverse they already participate in so you get benefits of distributed platforms but also the aggregation of unified platforms.
There's some nice things about arm and risc-v being open source is cool but here's the thing: I have a nice Linux arm laptop. There's so much infrastructure on PC architecture you immediately notice if you're not using it.
To get Linux on the laptop and using all the hardware, it was a multi year ordeal including mashing multiple distros from dodgy unmaintained GitHub repositories together.
Until I see more robustness from other platforms supporting software infrastructure, I'm keen to stick with x86-64 despite the potential advantages.
To get Linux on the laptop and using all the hardware, it was a multi year ordeal including mashing multiple distros from dodgy unmaintained GitHub repositories together.
Until I see more robustness from other platforms supporting software infrastructure, I'm keen to stick with x86-64 despite the potential advantages.
As opposed to the long established reality that fighting wildfires creates stronger wildfires because it's repressing the natural lifecycle of a forest
Unfortunately that's definitely a problem with a lot of the phrases, they've been used in many ways by many people.
I had an existential crisis when I was in college, and I was trying really hard to explain why I should continue getting out of bed when I could just lay there and die of starvation since to do anything else lacked meaning, value, or sense. To me, that was nihilism. I finally snapped out of it when I was hearing this pencil necked nerd talk about hiking through the mountains of kenya and I was really impressed and in that moment I realized that of course there's meaning, value, and sense in the world since I'm a human being living in the world and so from that basis I can find meaning, value, and sense.
Now, does that answer all the questions? No. But it does give me a bit of a lodestone to trust my gut when I ask myself "Would I be impressed if I saw myself doing this?"
I had an existential crisis when I was in college, and I was trying really hard to explain why I should continue getting out of bed when I could just lay there and die of starvation since to do anything else lacked meaning, value, or sense. To me, that was nihilism. I finally snapped out of it when I was hearing this pencil necked nerd talk about hiking through the mountains of kenya and I was really impressed and in that moment I realized that of course there's meaning, value, and sense in the world since I'm a human being living in the world and so from that basis I can find meaning, value, and sense.
Now, does that answer all the questions? No. But it does give me a bit of a lodestone to trust my gut when I ask myself "Would I be impressed if I saw myself doing this?"
LOOOK AT IT. LOOOOOOOOOK AAAAAAT IIIIIIIT!
DO YOU SEE THE FULLY ARMED AND OPERATIONAL N-BOMBS?!
YOU MUST ACCEPT THIS IN YOUR HEART OR I WILL REJECT YOU, WENCH!
DO YOU SEE THE FULLY ARMED AND OPERATIONAL N-BOMBS?!
YOU MUST ACCEPT THIS IN YOUR HEART OR I WILL REJECT YOU, WENCH!
https://invidious.fbxl.net/watch?v=sj7p91vjUhI
I keep coming back to listen to this song. It's one of my favorite 90s alt rock songs. It's got rock, and this indian classical vibe I like way better than actual indian classical music lol
I keep coming back to listen to this song. It's one of my favorite 90s alt rock songs. It's got rock, and this indian classical vibe I like way better than actual indian classical music lol
This occurred because copyright law is broken. Terms are too long.
We're barely just now getting the very beginning of cinema, the very first musical recordings of all time. By the time the public domain is added to under this regime, much of the protected work is destroyed and lost forever. This is directly contrary to the stated purpose of copyright law, to help create more works that eventually enter the public domain.
We're barely just now getting the very beginning of cinema, the very first musical recordings of all time. By the time the public domain is added to under this regime, much of the protected work is destroyed and lost forever. This is directly contrary to the stated purpose of copyright law, to help create more works that eventually enter the public domain.
I see true nihilism as something we're specifically incapable of at a biological level. People who think they're nihilistic tend to immediately start relying on internal systems of value built into themselves thus not being nihilistic. "Nothing" ends up not meaning "nothing", but just "not the current thing".
"I'm so nihilistic but I fear death and like good feelings and hate bad feelings and breathe and have reflexes and and and..." imo that means you've reverted to systems of meaning built into your DNA which isn't nihilistic. Those systems of value and meaning actually underpin everything humans have derived since. You could call it something like paleoism or archaeism, a reliance on the original basics built into us by evolution from long ago.
Then there's the argument you mention, "nothing matters so let's just do whatever we want" is hardly nihilism, since it explicitly places value on what "we want", suggesting there's some sort of meaning and value in the things "we want". It's one step above archaeism because not only do you implicitly accept all your biological values, there's a new layer of values on top of that regarding immediate desires.
By contrast, a rock is nihilistic. It doesn't care if you move it or leave it. If you push it towards a crusher, it'll just go with it because it doesn't care if it is broken or not. If you soak it in acid it'll happily sit there, because it doesn't matter if it is dissolved or not. It won't flee from rain, it won't seek heat or cold. It won't seek or avoid anything because it lacks meaning, value, and sense.
It may seem like a meaningless nitpick, but it's really important. We are biological things with meaning, value, and sense packed into our DNA given to us by our ancestors going back billions of years and exploding forth from every action or inaction we take. We are soaking in so much meaning we can't even easily perceive of what we have because our brains are inherently wired for it.
And from there it becomes easy to see how the logic from a false premise leads to terrible outcomes like you said. Since you're not starting from nothing, if you think you are then you're wrong, and if you're starting with such important things being wrong, how can you reach a correct destination?
"I'm so nihilistic but I fear death and like good feelings and hate bad feelings and breathe and have reflexes and and and..." imo that means you've reverted to systems of meaning built into your DNA which isn't nihilistic. Those systems of value and meaning actually underpin everything humans have derived since. You could call it something like paleoism or archaeism, a reliance on the original basics built into us by evolution from long ago.
Then there's the argument you mention, "nothing matters so let's just do whatever we want" is hardly nihilism, since it explicitly places value on what "we want", suggesting there's some sort of meaning and value in the things "we want". It's one step above archaeism because not only do you implicitly accept all your biological values, there's a new layer of values on top of that regarding immediate desires.
By contrast, a rock is nihilistic. It doesn't care if you move it or leave it. If you push it towards a crusher, it'll just go with it because it doesn't care if it is broken or not. If you soak it in acid it'll happily sit there, because it doesn't matter if it is dissolved or not. It won't flee from rain, it won't seek heat or cold. It won't seek or avoid anything because it lacks meaning, value, and sense.
It may seem like a meaningless nitpick, but it's really important. We are biological things with meaning, value, and sense packed into our DNA given to us by our ancestors going back billions of years and exploding forth from every action or inaction we take. We are soaking in so much meaning we can't even easily perceive of what we have because our brains are inherently wired for it.
And from there it becomes easy to see how the logic from a false premise leads to terrible outcomes like you said. Since you're not starting from nothing, if you think you are then you're wrong, and if you're starting with such important things being wrong, how can you reach a correct destination?
The "big lie" is that there's never been any concerns about voting machines ever by anyone and they're all perfect. There were plenty of concerns when it was their guy who lost the election.
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2004-11-05/electronic-voting-stolen-election-2004/
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/07/politics/campaign/voting-problems-in-ohio-set-off-an-alarm.html
https://www.npr.org/2004/10/25/4125893/experts-question-security-of-new-voting-machines
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2005/06/23/democrats-say-2004-election-system-failed-in-ohio/8dbf3124-3aa2-4af5-abbd-51338f9f9273/
https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=239735&page=1
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2004-11-05/electronic-voting-stolen-election-2004/
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/07/politics/campaign/voting-problems-in-ohio-set-off-an-alarm.html
https://www.npr.org/2004/10/25/4125893/experts-question-security-of-new-voting-machines
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2005/06/23/democrats-say-2004-election-system-failed-in-ohio/8dbf3124-3aa2-4af5-abbd-51338f9f9273/
https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=239735&page=1
It would bother me if the book on nihilism wasn't like the book on Liechtenstein maritime law or Joe Brown's book on why the fed needs to exist, just a bunch of blank pages