So Mayer
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- Reposted by So MayerYou could say seducing students into an unthinking use of AI is the ultimate weapon in an ongoing battle to eliminate critical thought and creativity in humans and turn them into easily manipulatable worker drones.
- Reposted by So MayerThis is how I feel, too. I think a large part of how we got here is that test-based K-12 education is so deeply flawed. There is almost no reading or writing compared to when I was in school. Then, when students hit college they've never practiced those skills, so of course turn to LLM's.
- This is just so incredibly sad to me. It's not just that people think they are clever for hacking their way through school without work. It's that they don't WANT to learn new things. They don't WANT to improve skills. They don't WANT EDUCATION. nymag.com/intelligence...
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View full threadReposted by So MayerAnd here's what I wish more people would think about: who benefits from having half the country functionally illiterate? From people lacking skills in critical thinking, analysis, evaluation, and communication? From us outsourcing critical thinking to chatbots that are wrong over half the time?
- Reposted by So MayerFor @defector.com, I wrote about the impoverishment of "Abundance," a book with no interest in conservation and whose disciples are in desperate need of a land ethic.
- "This is a vision of America’s future that has hardly a word to say about forests, oceans, fresh water, ecosystems, or wild animals—about anything that isn’t made by and for humans." defector.com/an-abundance...
- Wait is this sketch **why** Trump just defunded PBS??????? I come from a grudge-holding people (look up broygas) but this is beyond.
- Reposted by So MayerAI is trash and it’s fine for people to just say so. It’s a giant plagiarism machine that’s built on theft, steeped in anti-worker ideology, fueled by environmental destruction, and intricately tied to the hopes, dreams & schemes of the richest fascists on the planet.
- Reposted by So MayerAlso, follow NE Ohio Regional Sewer District for gems like this!
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- Reposted by So Mayerthe fundamental disconnect between the manosphere and reality is that they are incapable of understanding that this is - according to every woman I’ve ever met - the sexiest thing a man has ever done
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