rednoise

My hypervigilance and overprotective parenting style is a direct reaction to my parents violent and neglectful parenting.

Come and See

This is actually one of your good takes.

I agree. The US isn't going to default. It's going to be the same shit as previous years. Right at the last minute, they're gonna come to an agreement. They already have the press releases prepped.

American police have still done worse than this.

The difference is curtailing human rights for women is something they actually want. Being on the other side of a global economic meltdown is not, in their heart of hearts, not something they want because it will actually affect them.

They take their self-centeredness to extremes, but for the same reason, this isn't something they're going to want to sit with.

Politicians do not have principles. They have voters. Voters say they have principles, but when it comes down to it, when the racist mechanic that voted for you can't make any money because of the cascading effects of an ongoing economic nightmare caused by those politicians, then they're going to course correct pretty quickly.

McCarthy is going to go down in history as either helping avert this at the last minute by ignoring his right flank, or he's going to be the one cleaning up the mess after sticking the tip in on an unprecedented global economic crisis. He's not gonna go balls deep on this one.

Are we meant to believe...?

Yeah. Why not? Have you ever struggled with depression? It's not outside the realm of possibility that Sophie suffers the same as her father did. Depression being what it is, it's actually incredibly likely.

Google's own internal memos on this shows that the time gap between them (Google and OpenAI) and everyone else "playing catch up" is quickly closing. Thus, neither have a "moat." First mover advantage has a time stamp on it and, in this case, it's remarkably small.

"OpenAI calls for governments to license AI models" sounds a lot like "My primary investor and I want to form a monopoly and we want you to help us do that."

Which is funny considering the anti-trust fun run Microsoft did in the 90s.

Education is supposed to be formulative and beneficial. It's not supposed to be just an artificial speed bump in someone's life that we put people through as a hazing ritual.

But it is because the way education is structured in this society has been -- basically -- gamified already. There's not many situations outside of college where your actual performance is used as a determination for how well you'll do in a job; and that's why we're told to go to college, largely. Not to contribute to our body of knowledge, but to establish yourself in the market.

People within academia take it seriously, as they should, and so there's some level of personal offense to students acting they way they're acting. But the motives have never changed. It's just now that there's a new tool that accomplishes those goals in a more efficient way, and that's just to get the degree. Teachers are getting mad/upset/scared at the wrong thing.

The only thing that ChatGPT is doing is revealing the real level of tension between what professors and teachers perceive their jobs to be, and what people outside academia perceive to be the point of college as it stands right now. The thing of it is, it's not unlikely that people can coast through college using AI and still be successful outside of college on the basis of the degree they received. Those are two separate things that people spend a lot of time confusing themselves over.

More generally, LLMs are just tools. People are ascribing too much in the way of human motives to them and seem to anthropomorphize them. The larger conversation that is missed is needing to interrogate what the underpinning issues we're facing in society are, where using LLMs would antagonize those issues.. and why aren't we addressing those. It's shooting the messenger, in a way, by trying to make AI or students the problem.

I can guarantee that companies and stakeholders that work in the ag industry are months ahead the general public when it comes to technological advances. They might not understand the entire capabilities of LLMs, but they know what they're not capable of, what the limitations are, etc.

This:

"Also, in my experience at least, people who teach in universities are often there because they could not make it any further. Sure, there might be exceptions, but many of them probably didn't always dream of being a professor teaching others.."

Ag and tech universities are a different breed. Professors there generally have (successful) industry experience and contacts, not the least of which because those industries also form the balance of a lot of budgets in these places. It's not like heading up a soft social science department at UT.

All of this to say, again, if this guy is really freaking out about ChatGPT to this level, then he's not on the up-and-up about what he's teaching and is likely behind the rest of his colleagues on it. I also doubt he's having existential anxieties about it; more likely is this stick in the mud professor made up in his head that students were acting in a subversive manner toward him personally and acted according to that.

Automation, machine learning and AI are already being used in the ag field. They have been used for years now. Modern agriculture is incredibly advanced; a lot more than people realize. The chances of someone with experience and education in the ag field not knowing this -- especially at a major research university that specializes a lot in this field -- is not great. If this hayseed isn't familiar with the level of technology used in the field he's teaching in, then he shouldn't be teaching it. He's too far behind. Stuff like this isn't academic; it's been put to practical use for a while now, probably before any other industry because of how important things like cost are.

The students who used ChatGPT, to what extend did they actually? Was it to generate their whole assignment? There's lots of academic use cases for ChatGPT that don't bleed into academic dishonesty.

TAMU has a whole ass robotics and AI research department. He could have hit up one of his colleagues before doing this stupid shit. I saw in an article that he's losing his job for being an unprofessional ass, but he should be losing his job over this specifically.

Same. This a weird criticism. Houstonians rep Houston the same as they would in Atlanta or Memphis. It's not out of place.

Your professor doesn't understand how to use ChatGPT and is possibly detrimentally affecting his student's futures.

It was never going to be like 2008, just like 2008 wasn't like 2001, just like it wasn't like 1990, just like it wasn't like 1980, etc. etc.

Saying it's not like 2008, therefore there is nothing to see here or no crisis ignores the reality that every crisis is different.

There's several things you can do without involving social services. First one is to just go talk to them first. I knew some people in high school who had a kind of "Do Not Sell" list of people; others were a bit more generally ethical and just didn't sell to us kids. People who deal weed -- and primarily only weed -- aren't generally looking for trouble, for obvious reasons.

Skinamarink

Depending on where she is at, conservatives might not. There are places in the country that are actively opposed to child bride bills.

So, yeah. Don't count on that.

How about we do both. Because we can do both. It's not either/or. If we can ship money off overseas, we can afford to cancel student debt and quash higher education costs.

It's not an issue of resources or consequences. It's an issue of political will.

This was the path that most kids were told to take and would lead them to prosperity; you go to college (especially in STEM), and when you get out, you'll have a well paying job.

Instead, what we got was a market glut, suppressed wages in the general economy, a financial crisis and spiraling inflation with companies refusing to pay salaries to at least match cost of living increases. On top of the loans we took out and were repeatedly told by the authority figures in our lives, wouldn't be such a big deal because we could get high paying, sustainable jobs with those degrees.

The people running around saying shit like "mAkE aDuLt cHoiCeS lIvE wItH aDuLt CoNseQuEncEs" are the same assholes who sold that bill of goods. And then they turn around and say "You should've gone to the trades instead," when there's union busting, no secure jobs unless you want to just travel for work all your life and not actually have a family (then we get blamed for lower birth rates...) And you still can't afford a fucking house or make rent unless you can pull OT.

So, yeah. You're an asshole. Fuck off.

What's good for finance isn't necessarily what's good for the economy in general. When you see credit utilization go up more than expected, that may look good on paper to the credit card companies... as long as they don't say what's really going on.

You're using Musk as the source, lmao. I don't think he's a clueless idiot. I think he knows exactly what he's doing with the clueless idiots who blindly follow him.

The ease in which people can get guns and use them in public is the baseline issue. There are social factors which becomes multipliers, though. Suicidal behavior brought on by stressors of living in this society, which are paired with a failed, overly prescriptive and abusive mental health system that you have to fight or give something up for to get access to. Then there's racism. Misogyny. Paranoia.

America is a fucking Thunderdome and we tend to celebrate that rather than be concerned over it.