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  • orcrist@lemm.eetoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldFight or flight
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    You’re telling us the stories that the Democrats tell us, but they know and we know that it’s fiction. Democrats, politicians of all kinds, always risk alienating some voters when they make major policy decisions. That’s unavoidable, and to pretend that the only group that matters is the invisible center is obviously fallacious, which we’ve seen time and again. I would say that’s what we learned in 2000, 2004, 2016, and certainly 2024.

    I would say we learned it, that we all know it, and that people who pretend otherwise are lying to us.



  • Kind of, right? That depends on a great many assumptions, and if you adjust them slightly, you get a different result. For example, if the U.S. were to switch from SUVs to small sedans and hatchbacks, the CO2 savings take many more years to obtain.

    In other words, OK sure go EV, but the main targets should be what they always were: drive less, and drive small cars. Oh, and don’t be fooled into thinking EVs solve a problem when they don’t.







  • There is plenty wrong with generative AI as a tool if you think of it in those terms.

    I would say that if the depth of analysis is limited to “AI” or “genAI” then use of it in schools is overwhelmingly bad. If that’s the limit of our ability to frame the issue, then banning AI would appear inevitable, and any graded assignment that might encourage AI use should be banned.

    But if you want to break things down, you can find specific tools (i.e., calculators, grammar checkers) that could be labeled as AI or specific uses of genAI (i.e., brainstorming) that have use. And it is this latter approach – clearly identifying positive uses – that is difficult for students, media writers, and apparently policy makers to do.


  • Yes and no. Remember that rich kids could always hire ghost writers. ChatGPT made that available to the masses, but that particular problem goes back centuries.

    What we have seen is that the curriculum is often decided by a distant committee who actually doesn’t understand life on the ground. In reality, there are easy ways for teachers to undercut the utility of ChatGPT, if they have the freedom to make changes. But that depends on teachers having control and the time to make changes to how they teach.