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FistfullOfCrows
12m ago
I mean, isreal is already using "ai" to help decide shelling/strikes locations. Even if it's used as an excuse ( well the AI told us there were terrorists there ) it's still going to be hyper dystopian. We are going to look back fondly on the incompetent/unskilled labor from India in the near future. A harrowing thought.
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
20m ago
How do you even 'define' intelligence. If we go by IQ estimates, 2x human intelligence is von Neumanns by the server rack
It is said that you have to be twice as smart to debug a clever piece of code as you have to be to write that piece of code. By that metric, an AI twice as smart as von Neumann would be capable of debugging a program that von Neumann was just barely capable of writing.
With AI you can do an arbitrary amount of testing pretty easily so no, that won't happen.
Lol. Lmao, even.
Is "do an arbitrary amount of testing, including testing the annoying boundaries with poorly documented external systems" where the incentives will point? I would bet against.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
20m ago
This is so strange to read. Literally half my degree dropped out in our first year because of self-selection and mandatory credit requirements. This was treated as entirely normal and a good thing, as it is obviously a bad thing for people to waste their time and money on degrees they don't like/aren't capable of following.
Germany is usually fairly generous with educations, but at my (provincial, no-name) university, all Bachelor CompSci students were treated as completely without value and it was fully expected that 80%-90% would drop out before getting their degree. It was only when students proved themselves by working towards a Master's degree while also getting involved with research, or aimed higher yet, that faculty would start getting invested in them in any way. Teaching seemed very much like an afterthought, or an unloved chore.
FistfullOfCrows
29m ago
Trump also wheeled out the pork barrel for Ai, maybe less than the Chinese will, maybe there will be more pork later.
pbmonster
42m ago
I was in undergrad 15 years ago and teach those courses today. The standard math and physics intro courses have not gotten easier, drop-out rates are about the same. STEM education is pretty conservative, especially so outside the CS departments.
All but the best reasoning models hallucinate so much on standard problem sets that they're not very useful to students (who overwhelmingly only use free models). Also, those problem sets mirror closely what will be on the exam, where using an LLM is only possible on a bathroom break. The students who don't drop out by year two usually have learned that they need to do the problem sets themselves for their own good.
Students will cheat on lab reports, but they always did that. Today, it's ChatGPT, 15 years ago it was a Dropbox with old lab reports to copy from. Proficient cheaters will only "get help" on abstract, conclusion and the theory section - which is hard to proof, so we look the other way. Bad cheaters will copy the data analysis section, or even the experimental data. This is extremely easy to prove, and those get nuked in public.
Jiro
48m ago
The only way a suggestion for Pasha teaching himself about ethics violates the value judgement of dimwit professors teaching ethics is if Pasha is a dimwit professor
Come on. There's a difference between "I am suggesting that people do this to learn life skills" and "I am suggesting that people do this to justify my claims". Ethics classes are recommended in the former context. Your "recommendation" that Pasha study things himself was in the latter context. You should just explain it, since you are the one making the claim, not demand he study it himself.
People are supposed to back up what they say here. "I want you to do it on your own" is a filibuster, not an honest argument.
Jiro
56m ago
The big risk for the student: what if they don't get hired by Palantir?
Or what if they do and end up having to quit (or Palantir goes bankrupt)? Not having other options is bad even if you get the job.
orthoxerox
If you can read this, you're using a custom theme
59m ago
It's the responsibility of the ministry of education in most countries.
orthoxerox
If you can read this, you're using a custom theme
1hr ago
You never know. When my toy railway project stalled because I couldn't be bothered to print 20 iterations to get the turnouts right, I stopped and my printer has been gathering dust since. I should probably sell it.
On the other hand, my former colleague has been printing stuff like a possessed man.
Owlify
1hr ago
Yes, but their status relative to their husband will be lower, and even if they don't care about that then the things you have to do to marry someone high status and stay married to them are very different from the things you have to do to have your own achievements and gain status through them. One is much more agentic and less dependent on other people so it will be the preferred method.
SkoomaDentist
1hr ago
I did engineering but the grading guide for such questions was generally "A perfect answer should cover almost all of [a list of points]". A question might be something like "Explain FIR and IIR filters and compare their advantages and disadvantages" (I specialized in signal processing). You can fit quite a lot of points in two pages if you don't spend the majority of it on pointless waffling like Scott always does.
Another way to look at it is that if four pages of writing is enough to get me a conference paper (and thus effectively counts as a course's worth of credits with a perfect grade), why should I spend more than half of that on an essay worth 25% of exam points?
Sure, it's different if you're studying literature or something similar where the writing itself is the point but for the vast majority of topics the point of such essay answers is simply to show that you understand the topic, not to make the grader suffer through your poorly filtered stream of consciousness.
urquan
Blessings crown the head of the righteous, but violence overwhelms the mouth of the wicked.
2hr ago
It would have been better if it'd happened differently, but I think Bubbles is better off. I know I found it really freeing when I realized the competitive and performance-focused environment of WoW wasn't for me and started playing other games.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
2hr ago
To a first approximation, every STEM course I took in undergrad was curved, and every humanities course was not.
TowardsPanna
2hr ago
Lol. Sounds a bit painful.
This makes me think that groups should be more sorted by skill. I remember being in a team vs team game clan that was more "social" and carried a few horrendous players. It affected my enjoyment.
BlindDeafRat
2hr ago
What is "keyboard turning"?
You can turn your character with A and D, or you can do it with your mouse. Mouse is much, much faster and more precise. It's easier to dodge mechanics and have better awareness if you use your mouse.
A some people (usually beginners) also click on their abilities instead of using hotkeys. So their mouse is too busy to focus on turning.
It's a sign of not playing in an optimal way.
SkoomaDentist
2hr ago
I believe it works the same way in most of Northern Europe. Multiple canteens operated by companies providing subsidized meals for students and below market rate rental housing owned by various non-profit foundations and student unions, all with loose association with the universities (ie. you have to be a student in one of them to live in the housing / receive subsidization but the universities have no control over any of that).
ABigGuy4U
3hr ago
Why would it get dark
Because the people who control 99 percent of the wealth of the planet (which no longer requires human consumers or employees), and 100 percent of the military resources (which no longer require human soldiers) will decide that they don’t need 7.9 billion useless eaters crapping up their planet.
sockpuppet2
3hr ago
Or just compare standardized grad school admissions test scores to SAT scores. The problem is getting the data.
Alabasata
4hr ago
I like to hope that graphical calculators are not a thing any more
Go to any office supply store near you. Are TI-83s still for sale?
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
4hr ago
Grading on the curve has always been a mark of intellectual laziness/lack of rigor in a feild.
It's nothing more than a means of convincing people with high verbal IQs and low mathematical literacy that students and professors dont actually have to do thier jobs (learn and teach respectively) to be "good" students or professors.
TowardsPanna
5hr ago
It's interesting that Blossom manages to be everyone's friend while being a highly skilled (I assume that's what "absolute gamer" means) player who gets held back by others, assumedly.
But at the same time it makes sense that the dead average player becomes abusive.
What is "keyboard turning"?
What did you cognize and conclude after being part of that group?
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
5hr ago
That would require work and intellectual rigor on the part of the professors. Intelligent rigourous people with good work ethic don't go into academia, they go into buisiness.
lagrangian
5hr ago
How about MIT or Caltech?
What'd be really fun is if we could also access performance reviews over time, to better assess job performance rather than interview performance.
I agree with this. Europe is extremely sclerotic and mostly coasting on past developments and the contributions of rare reformers that actually patch out some of the excesses of our buerocracies, of which we have multiple layers all of which have an unquestioned mandate to grow unchecked by anything other than hard financial limits, and all of which promote a progressive vision of prosperous society as a thing that just works by default and can be taken for granted.
And nevermind defence; Europe is by and large a joke when it comes to military anything. Some countries more
some less
but none of them likely to be able to put up a real fight against a peer or above-peer military power because Europe isn't a nation, or even a federation of nations, but simply an economic zone of economic zones, yadda yadda lack of social cohesion, I'm out of time, you know the drill.
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