[-] iglou@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

No? An essay is a test, not a proof of intelligence. Humans tend to do the minimal effort on things they dislike. If the task is not something we are interested in, we will tend to do the minimum needed to accomplish the task. That's not being stupid. What is stupid is forcing humans to do things they dislike.

We are perfectly capable to spend our mind on tasks we are interested in. AI just makes it easier to be lazy on shit we don't care about.

This is about effort, not intelligence. The article, like 99% of news articles these days, finds a shocking headline that is not supported by research (no serious research will associate effort spent on an essay with intelligence), and is happy with the high number of people it pleases.

[-] iglou@programming.dev 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

My point stands: the technology is not going to disappear. What are we going to do about not being able to use essays to evaluate how well a student understands a subject? Push back on AI? Futile ban attempts?

You're saying using AI for essays defeats the purpose of essays, I'm saying essays are no longer a good way to evaluate understanding of a topic.

[-] iglou@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

I include essays, yes. It's all archaic. I'm not saying we shouldn't have a way to evaluate student performance, but this is not it.

[-] iglou@programming.dev -1 points 1 day ago

Well I'm already changing the way I work to use my brain on what AI can't do well, and letting AI do what it can do well. I haven't spent time thinking about how to change the world, and I don't exactly have that time, but I'll support left leaning parties that focus on integrating with the change rather than forbidding it.

The most essential thing in my opinion is a UBI. For decades we've been automating jobs away. Unemployment is no longer a problem because of economic troubles, it's a problem because we're using automation to increase production rather than improve people's lives. The most essential thing, in my opinion, is shifting the way we think about work from "you must work to survive" to "you are surviving by default, you can work to improve your life".

Then the second thing is education. But, I am very opinionated and might be wrong. I find the whole system, in every country that I know of, so antiquated. It is the one thing in our lives that has barely changed in centuries. Exam-driven education does not work. Brilliant, mostly neurodivergent minds (which are much more common than we used to think) are excluded from success because of it. AI won't replace passion, students use AI because they dislike what they do. We as a species are not lazy, we're just great at doing things that we love. Stop hammering students with exams, start letting them choose earlier on what they study, and they'll stop using AI to offload everything.

[-] iglou@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Well, if you hold a grudge against french individuals for what their ancestors did, yeah, you're wrong. You can hold a grudge against France as a country for what they did, though. Unfortunately it seems that you're doing the former.

[-] iglou@programming.dev 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You should understand the principles before accessing the short cuts.

I don't really agree with this take. The reason we teach kids mental calculus is to indeed understand basic principles, but only because their further education is based on those principles.

But it doesn't generalise to everything. I don't need to understand assembly or the basic principles that make a computer work to be a good software engineer using high level programming languages.

And this might be an unpopular take, but you don't even need to understand well low level development to be a good software engineer using high level languages.

[-] iglou@programming.dev 7 points 1 day ago

Any age is a good time to learn anything! Most people stop caring after school and you don't, and that's fantastic.

[-] iglou@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

I've grown increasingly disappointed with fairphone

It would be nice to include why!

[-] iglou@programming.dev 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Nice, please hurry up and expand this to all US companies before the dutch government seals the massively idiotic deal of selling DigiD to a US company

[-] iglou@programming.dev 8 points 1 day ago

Vermeer is definitely famous worldwide. This person just didn't know him.

[-] iglou@programming.dev 12 points 3 days ago

Because the whole party wants it.

[-] iglou@programming.dev 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The dems having a trifecta does not mean that he has absolute power in deciding what to do with it. If it doesn't fly with the democrats as a whole, he can try, but would fail.

Let's be honest, the democrats as a whole would never have gone along with getting rid of the PATRIOT Act.

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