Ilovethebomb @ Ilovethebomb @lemmy.nz

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The news article you're commenting on?

I'm going to be honest here, the constant doom and gloom from you and others in this thread is kinda sad. Every time the "other team" does something even remotely good, you immediately assume it won't work, and set out to explain why.

Any step towards more intensification will mean getting closer to ending the housing crisis, let's celebrate that shall we?

And that means these hypothetical new builds will be unaffordable?

You're going to have to explain your reasoning here, we've had a shortage of housing for a very long time, how will ending that shortage not help?

How do you know that?

And that's kinda what we need right now, just mass produced, low cost housing that people can actually afford.

Yeah, I have a friend who has a Kiwibuild apartment, they have a ridiculous amount of cupboards, a washer/dryer, storage in the basement for his mountain bike.

That's kinda on the buyer though, even if you're buying off plans, all this is on the plans you sign off on.

I realise you're not from around here, so let me fill you in. lemmy.nz is a fairly small instance, where we all interact with each other on a regular basis, and typically are civil to each other, even when we disagree.

Try and keep this in mind in future.

So, what do you feel you've added to the conversation?

Can you be more specific?

What bullish are you calling out exactly?

Seriously though, what is your issue? Why are you like this?

I really think you should take your combative attitude back to Reddit.

Not a single comment you've made has added anything of value to the conversation, do you realise that?

Hmm. The PhD study does sound like it's more to benefit her career as an author and her activism than NZ as a whole, but I can see why, in theory at least, a PhD is worthwhile for public interest.

Collins told RNZ she already uses ChatGPT to write drafts of her speeches.

She seems exactly the type. There's something about AI enthusiasts I really don't like, and I find it difficult to put into words, but it's a certain combination of undeserved optimism and for the technology, an unshakeable belief that it will solve all our problems, and perhaps the most infuriating thing, a blindness to just how fucking weird AI responses typically are.

And given that Judith is probably a lizard person in a skin suit, it doesn't surprise me she's blind to AI weirdness.

Quite interesting to see what her field is, at least.

Why?

That's why I'm asking.

My question is, is a PhD thesis as important as this person thinks it is?

And I suspect she will spend an absurd amount of time and money doubling down on her mistake.

She sounds like a massive pain in the ass, and the story is written to be sympathetic to her. I don't blame the employees for getting annoyed, but putting something like this in writing is just dumb.

What's so important about a PhD that justifies this level of access, anyway? How does it benefit NZ?