I wish more people were like us on this matter, but they don’t appear to be. People are using video for everything, regardless of how bad it is. One of the most popular genre of short form video is some well manicured person pointing up at some text that appears in the top of a video, set to terrible music. 20-100 words at most.

Are you familiar with a social media site where it’s common to post well-researched and cited position papers? A rant is about what I expect in a place like this. The goal, I think, is to start a discussion -which is where your commentors injecting nuance or level headed opinions comes in. I personally don’t know what the solution is, but students using AI is an incredible experiment being conducted on the next generation. No one has anything but an opinion, because there’s no outcome data yet. My opinion is that it is scary as hell.

Offloading onto technology always atrophies the skill it replaces. Calculators offloaded, very specifically, basic arithmetic. However, Math =/= arithmetic. I used calculators, and cannot do mental multiplication and division as fast or well as older generations, but I spent that time learning to apply math to problems, understand number theory, and gaining a mastery of more complex operations, including writing computer sourcecode to do math-related things. It was always a trade-off.

In Aristotle’s time, people spent their entire education memorizing literature, and the written world off-loaded that skill. This isn’t a new problem, but there needs to be something of value to be educated in that replaces what was off-loaded. I think scholars are much better trained today, now that they don’t have to spend years memorizing passages word for word.

AI replaces thinking. That’s a bomb between the ears for students.

Comparing with phones is odd, as we shouldn’t have allowed them in schools in the first place, and are starting to ban them in schools all over the world.

They are not actually encrypted (anything like that on the box is basically a lie). Just pre-arrange code words for emergencies and use a “handle” instead of a name. Old school works.

Aside from the snark, I hope you are right.

Not only that, imploding could further inflame the world. If a collapsing us goes into Greenland, and the EU splits in half over whether to side with Denmark or the US (remember, Poland is totally dependant on US nuclear deterrent, they are not likely to abandon that). That will empower Putin to move in. That China will be unrestrained is not even questionable. Things will get hotter everywhere.

Oh neat. I was scared off by OIC going to a data “blob” backend store. I want my files still accessible directly if the database blows up. Looks like opencloud gives you the choice: https://nexus.opencloud.community/docs/app-development/storage-backends/

https://replaceyourboss.ai/ Be the change!

Yeah, the whole “private banking” history thing the EFF seems to lionize in the article was 100% just for serving lucrative international robber barrons and other criminals. It was never about protecting regular citizens privacy.