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  • I'm not at all confident in the answers directly. I've gotten plenty of wrong answers form AI and I've gotten plenty of correct answers. If anything it's just more practice for critical thinking skills, separating what is true and what isn't.

    When it comes to math though, it's pretty straightforward, I'm just looking for context on some steps in the problems, maybe reminders of things I learned years ago and have forgotten, that sort of thing. As I said, I'm interested in actually understanding the stuff that I'm learning because I am using it for the things I'm working on so I'm mainly reading through textbooks and using AI as well as other sources online to round out my understanding of the concepts. If I'm getting the right answers and the things I am doing are working, it's a good indicator I'm on the right path.

    It's not like I'm doing cutting edge physics or medical research where mistakes could cause lives.

  • Like any tool, it depends how you use it. I have been learning a lot of math recently and have been chatting with AI to increase my understanding of the concepts. There are times when the textbook shows some steps that I don't understand why they're happening and I've questioned AI about it. Sometimes it takes a few tries of asking until you figure out the right question to ask to get the right answer you need, but that process of thinking helps you along the way anyways by crystallizing in your brain what exactly it is that you don't understand.

    I have found it to be a very helpful tool in my educational path. However I am learning things because I want to understand them, not because I have to pass a test and that determination in me to want to understand is a big difference. Just getting hints to help you solve the problem might not really help in the long run, but it you're actually curious about what you're learning and focus on getting a deeper understanding of why and how something works rather than just getting the right answer, it can be a very useful tool.

  • Anytime someone says "tell me you know nothing about X without saying you know nothing about X" instead of in any way refuting the comment they're replying to, it only shows that they're the one who actually doesn't know anything about it.

    You know people read what you write right? Like people other than who you're talking to? If you can refute them, then refute them, otherwise you're just making your side look bad and you're not making anything better except maybe you feel better patting yourself on the back with your pithy and original comment.

  • I don't really have an answer to that, it is an interesting question. For me personally I don't hold any attachment or feelings to the bodies of the deceased. When I die I'm getting one of those mushroom suits that decomposes you and quickly returns you to nature. But some people are much more attached to the bodies of the deceased whether for spiritual reasons or otherwise and I can't really speak for them. Would eating the euthanized pets cause suffering to their previous owners, I really have no answer for that, I assume there would be some people who would suffer from that and some who wouldn't mind. The quality of the meat I think would be very low though considering it would mostly be very senior animals with many health issues.

  • Maybe you're joking but I have seen people say this seriously so I'll respond seriously. Determining which conscious beings to inflict pain and suffering onto based on characteristics they were born with through no choice of their own is pretty shitty.

  • It's not sort of like that though because the practicality of the matter is that humans have to eat to survive but they don't have to genocide to survive. Reducing suffering as much as possible being the goal rather than eliminating it completely is not a new concept in philosophy considering eliminating suffering completely is impossible.

  • Sent to a shelter when his owner became homeless. That's the thing that scares me the most for my cat. She's so sensitive and scared of everything except for me it would break her little heart.

  • People say birds are dinosaurs because every living thing is in every clade of it's ancestors which means they are dinosaurs. They're also a lot of other things from all of the other clades so they're not saying that birds are just dinosaurs, but that they are part of Dinosauria and every other clade of their ancestors and so too will all of their descendants be.

  • You're definitely right that society needs to do a better job with this. Calling men toxic and joking about their inadequacy might make the person speaking feel better about themselves but it's not going to help society at all because that kind of talk is what pushes more and more boys into the arms of the Tate's of the world.

  • It would definitely work. I had my experience bonding with a lifetime cat that I got when she was a baby. Any other time I would adopt a cat I would get an older cat with older and sassy or grumpy cats being more likely for me.

  • Every single piece of technology that you use daily without even thinking about it because it is so deeply ingrained in your life at one point had people just like you talking about it just like that. You people never figure out that today isn't the rest of time. It's like the opposite of object permanency or something, some people just can't figure out that now isn't here forever.