fivelorn

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by fivelorn 2y ago
What happens if the entire generation is students like this?
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by fivelorn 2y ago
You can't believe your lying eyes!
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by fivelorn 2y ago
I'm so sick of this trope. The point of numeracy is not in case you're suddenly caught without a calculator, although longhand arithmetic is definitely a good skill to possess.
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by fivelorn 2y ago
I mean, kinda, in that today's tech leaders consider themselves god-kings, and not, like... people who sell word processing CDs at Circuit City.
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by fivelorn 2y ago
Who could possibly be miserable amidst disease and authoritarianism?
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by fivelorn 2y ago
Because as we all know, if you can't do something perfectly every time, you might as well not even try.
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by fivelorn 2y ago
Except calculators actually do something useful and return the correct results, a crucial departure from the functionality of LLMs.
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by fivelorn 2y ago
You need to be able to read to use an LLM (the second "L" is particularly salient).
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by fivelorn 2y ago
Did giving teachers guns and reducing their salaries not fix it?
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by fivelorn 2y ago
In the old days, when we decided something was bad for society at large, we'd handle it with laws. How quaint.
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by fivelorn 2y ago
"Who cooked them?", he pondered, on the HN post situated between "I built a robot waifu with ChatGPT" and "Here's why it's okay to kill the bottom 10% of the workforce".
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by fivelorn 2y ago
Hear me out: we could also build a more equitable society, one where the two choices aren't "live like an impoverished monk" and "win the Hunger Games".
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by fivelorn 2y ago
What if we all just stopped competing?
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by fivelorn 2y ago
Half of this website punches "Create a React app" into ChatGPT at work all day. I would make peace with the future.
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by fivelorn 2y ago
Crucially, this also determines the quality of your medical care, and how hard the nursing home staff will hit you after you retire.
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by fivelorn 2y ago
Everything in America is a competition. I'm sorry, but I chuckled considering that this _very website_ is devoted entirely to ruthlessly choosing winners and losers in (what purports to be) a cutthroat field. It's Hunger Games ove
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by fivelorn 2y ago
Who knew it was this easy? Thank you, citizen.