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[-] solomonschuler@lemmy.zip 7 points 12 hours ago

That AI (as in "generative AI") helps in learning if you give it the right prompt. There is evidence to support that when a user asks AI to implement code, that they (the user) won't touch it because they are unfamiliar of the code it generated. The AI effectively made a psychological black box that no programmer wants to touch even for a (relatively speaking) small snippet of code to a larger program, that was programmed by another programmer or him.

To further generalize, I fully believe AI doesn't improve the learning process, it makes it more accessible and easier for less literate people in a field to understand. I can explain Taylor expansions and power series simplistically to my brother who is less literate and familiar with math. I would be shocked that after a brief general overview he can now approximate any function or differential equation.

Same applies with chatGPT: You can ask it to explain simplistically taylor and power series solutions, or better yet, approximate a differential equation, it doesn't change the fact that you still can't replicate it. I know I'm talking about an extreme case where the person trying to learn Taylor expansions has no prior experience with math, but it still won't even work for someone who does...

I want to pose a simple thought experiment of my experience using AI on say (for example) taylor expansions. Lets assume i wants to learn Taylor expansion, ive already done differential calculus (the main requirement for taylor expansions) and I asks chatGPT "how to do Taylor expansions" as in what is the proof to the general series expansion, and show an example of applying Taylor expansions to a function. What happens when I try and do a problem is when I experience a level of uncertainty in my ability to actually perform it, and this is when I ask chatGPT if i did it correct or not. But you sort of see what I'm saying it's a downward spiral of loosing your certainty, sanity, and time commitment over time when you do use it.

That is what the programmers are experiencing, it's not that they don't want to touch it because they are unfamiliar with the code that the AI generated, it's that they are uncertain in their own ability to fix an issue as they may fuck it up even more. People are terrified of the concept of failure and fucking shit up, and by using AI they "solve" that issue of theirs even though the probability of it hallucinating is higher then if someone spent time figuring out any conflicts themselves.

[-] Professorozone@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Ok. You don't like low hanging fruit, here's one.

I don't believe all landlords are bad and shouldn't exist.

Go.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 11 hours ago

yea the single owner, or 2 houses. its the corporate ones, and nimbys landlowrd that need to go

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

I’d even divide it further. Screw the corporate ones, and even the small ones that won’t take care of a property and charge a lot. There are too few that do a decent job and don’t screw over tenants.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

that racism is still pervasive even in blue/liberal areas, they just hide it better, plus transplants(people who move to blue areas) often come from more conservative or moderate areas, during one of my speech writing classes in college people were telling thier backstory and thier was one saying they became more conservative when they moved here to west coast, plus we have the ones that escaped from "communist" countries, pretty obvious when was pratically sucking off the military/war effort that america does, during the end of BUSH 2nd term. plus the AA on asian violence and racism never truely get addressed in these blue area, it just gets swept under the rug by the media, for the sake of offending AA people.

[-] Skanky@lemmy.world 9 points 17 hours ago

That a hot dog is not a taco

[-] YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world 10 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

That there is nothing after death. That praying is pointless. I'm not a Christian as such, and I've no interest in debating the topic. I just find confident absolutists slightly annoying, be they religious fundamentalists or obnoxious atheists. Not that I'm saying all atheists are obnoxious, but there's a certain angsty teen attitude that will assert that there's nothing after death and I find it slightly arrogant.

[-] presoak@lazysoci.al 4 points 18 hours ago

You and me both.

[-] volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz 6 points 18 hours ago

That dogs are "good boys" or your friend.

[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 day ago

I disagree with the belief that all police officers are automatically bad people

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago

It’s not the premise that they are all inherently bad. It’s that there are plenty of bad ones and the good ones do nothing about them or actively protect them.

[-] Wahots@pawb.social 11 points 21 hours ago

One of my friends was a rural police officer, which I didn't know. Dude is super friendly and queer. Unfortunately he had a lot of terribly sad stories of AD&D and DUIs. He finally called it quits when one woman rode up an industrial garage door to impress her friend and got lethally caught in it. Found her friend holding her legs to try and save her. Too many terrible things happened to nice but terribly misguided (or drunk) people.

I think that job hurt his heart.

[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 13 points 23 hours ago

A friend of mine is a cop & a nice guy. I asked him why the hell he became a cop of all things & he said "this way, I know there's at least one cop in existence who's not a racist asshole."

I countered with "Oh, so you're just a regular asshole, then?" An he said "No sir; I am an ass hat. An asshole is an ass the whole time. If people are cool, I'm cool with them, but if someone wants to be an ass, I can put my ass hat on to match their energy."

I can respect that.

[-] essell@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago

i agree with you.

My best friend is ex-police. My brother is police.

They're not saints but they're good people, certainly not exploring or abusing anyone.

Then again, we're not in the USA so I can't comment on what it's like there.

[-] MightyThistle@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

That the cereal should be poured before the milk.

[-] Professorozone@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Thought it was illegal the other way around. You probably think the toilet paper should fold over the back too. Don't you?

[-] presoak@lazysoci.al 7 points 1 day ago

But cereral first is only sane and moral. We can't have a floating mound. And that's to say nothing of volumetric concerns.

[-] Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

You sprinkle some more cereal on the milk whenever you run out of cereal.

The whole point is to not have soggy cereal

Really depends on preference and cereal type

It's less of an argument between milk first vs second, but people that like soggy vs crunchy cereal.

The important thing is to not add too much cereal before you can eat it all. Adding in cereal last just helps make sure you don't.

[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 points 13 hours ago

I eat my cereal dry by the handful then drink milk when my mouth gets too cottonie

[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 4 points 23 hours ago

My uncle's ex-wife would pour a bowl of frosted flakes, pour milk on it, put the bowl in the refrigerator, then eat it the next day.

I don't think that's why they got divorced, but I've always believed it was a contributing factor...

[-] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago

Pick literally any religion.

Pick literally any belief.

That.

[-] presoak@lazysoci.al 3 points 1 day ago

It's like some kind of low hanging fruit party in here.

What's a commonly held belief here on lemmy that you disagree with?

[-] tfowinder@sh.itjust.works 84 points 2 days ago

It's common to advise young people that Working hard and grinding when you are young, then having relatively calm and relaxation life for the rest of the life.

I think the relaxation never comes, if you work to death right now then still there is a pretty good chance you would be doing same 10 years from now. I believe ther should be balance between work and life no matter what age.

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[-] Deestan@lemmy.world 45 points 1 day ago
[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

I like to point out to those people that arsenic is natural. Malaria is natural too.

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago

Cynicism isn't inherently more mature than believing that things can be made better. For a lot of people "everything is fucked, nothing matters" is a way of absolving themselves from the responsibility and personal risk involved in actively trying to make the world a better place.

[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

I agree with this. People think being pessimistic is more realistic than being optimistic. They think spinning things as negative is automatically more realistic than the positive spin. In reality, realism sees both sides and adjusts one's behaviour to make the best out of everything

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[-] jh29a 3 points 1 day ago

A surprising number of people on lemmy seem to have this belief, which i think is unpragmatic: They think that to live ones life correctly, or to form a coherent society, one, or the society, must have a Set of Ethical and Moral Principles that crucially, has to be easily enumerable, and preferably named (Like, "The Ten Commandments"). These people also think that they do not have such a named Set, and that this is a really bad problem for them. I think having values is good. However, I think that worrying about how they might be inconsistent seems to be a kind of wild-card disscussion-ender ("Well to solve that problem, we'd first need to sort out Philosophy"), and that therefore, using this worry in any discussion but an abstract one is bad.

(For the society part, holding way too high standards for the Set also creates weird Cultural Homogeneity problems, which irks me.)

If you believe something adjacent, which Sets of values count for you? The Ten Commandments? The Universal Declaration of Human Rights? Or whatever Kant said?

[-] TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago

That "growth" is inherently a good thing to do and if you aren't trying to grow as a person everyday then you're not living 'correctly'

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[-] Tedesche@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago
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[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago

That there is a correct way to live or that objective morality exists

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