HexesofVexes @ HexesofVexes @lemmy.world

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That's the real joke behind it all, the use of AI is such a problem because we're turning education into a stamp dispenser - everyone needs an A* to get anywhere.

AI has given every student a path to this - however if industry stopped demanding that universities train their damn staff for them, and instead insist we teach their future staff how to be trained (as well as giving them subject specific knowledge), then we'd see the misalignment vanish. Once the need for an A* to land a good job is gone, then so is the misalignment.

Ah yes, goal misalignment at its finest.

The students need high grades to get a job, so they focus on ensuring that happens (AI use being the easy path).

The teachers have progression targets to meet, so they focus on ensuring this happens (keep the AI vulnerable assessments).

If you want to change a module as a teacher, good luck getting that work loaded when you should be implementing AI in your curriculum _

Truth is proof - I can neither prove the number of gods is >0, nor prove it is =0.

Thus cautious agnosticism (since the evidence suggests, if there is at least one god, then they really hate us).

The forehead wrinkles say "nope".

Microcosmic example. Take 3 people - a newborn (A), a professor of biology (B) and a professor in philosophy (C).

You're easily able to argue that both professors are more intelligent than the newborn (A<B and A<C). However, you're unable to establish (in any meaningful way) whether B<C, or C<B; even B=C is out. This is because both professors have knowledge the other does not, so trying to meaningfully equate or order them in relation to one another is an act of futility.

This is a fun example of a partial order that most of us see every day (in a less extreme form).

Shh! Quiet everyone!

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I can almost make out the words...

Someone woke up this morning and chose violence.

Gaming, reading, and (rarely, when folks visit) drinking!

So do I, but not everyone is so lucky!

"ennui and a trapped feeling ... no control over your own life"

That describes adulthood for a lot more people than we're willing to admit. Adulthood often has the illusion of more choices, but for many those choices have one realistic option.

As a kid, there is at least the feeling of "I'll grow up and it will be great", as a working adult it used to be "I'll retire and it'll be great"; these days it's "well, I hope there isn't teams meetings in the afterlife".

It will also be in 50 years time.

Enshittification is apparently a journey, not a destination.

Adds to the ever growing list of copy-blight examples

Yep, that was a very much my fantasy. 9 hours of sleep, with an alarm of "stop right there criminal scum".

512gb of ram you say? That's legendary 3rd chrome tab territory.

At the root it's a very difficult topic to address, let me change my language a little to avoid the politics implied by the room.

When you generalise a negative trait to a particular gender, you are making a sexist and hateful comment. The "emotional woman" and the "deceitful gold digger", the "violent man" and the "potential rapist" - the former would lead to a talk with HR, the latter leads to open agreement and often accolade.

The argument made for this discrepancy is that it is redressing the systemic sexism built into our society, but I think that it has ceased to do so and us now fuelling the misogyny more than it is addressing it.

There is a need to redress societal imbalance that disadvantages women - however hatred only breeds more hatred. The path currently taken is wrong, and history will show that to be true.

Misogyny and misandry, two unhappy twins; one celebrated, the other shunned. Both found their way into this thread.

That's enough internet for today I think.

I've got this move coming up - my plan is to dual boot and slowly wean over.

Game crashes in Linux, try for a fix and if I get frustrated, boot into windows and enjoy the game.

Might be a rocky year, but the dual boot will likely take the stress off!

I've seen a lot of fedora-based distros pushed for gaming (mint is Debian based), apparently these can work better. Still looking into it, but no definitive answers there yet!

There is a added bonus here as well - some researchers will not only send the paper, but also offer to answer questions AND send other related papers.

Some academics out there are just really friendly people.

Short Answer - Universities

Long Answer:

To get and hold a job as an academic, you must continually produce "high quality research". To get the job, in the first place, you must also be seen to do this.

"High quality" is often metriced by universities to mean "published in high impact journals" and "well cited". This metric is known to be faulty, but universities really dislike change.

So, to get a job, you have to give up your rights to your research, and to keep your job, you have to do likewise.

Worse, in the current financial climate, academia is seeing unprecedented cuts, which further entrenches this issue.