California supremacist. Climber. English prof. Urbit: pasmul-hopnel. Author of "Excavating the Memory Palace" and "The Last Mixtape." Blog at link below.
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Nothing fails the Bechdel Test harder than all-female podcasts. Even the true crime ones.
Something I’ve noticed about “femosphere” podcasts is that literally all they talk about is men and relationships.
Joe Rogan, the biggest male coded podcast, is known for talking about drugs and wild animals and random shit-talk with the odd bit of spicy political stuff.
Women are ingesting absolute poison on a level equivalent with the very worst of the “Manosphere” and the asymmetry in the way each is received in polite society is so vast to be a chasm.
Both of these are 100% making you stupider.
This is basically true. Two experiments.
Experiment 1:
> Dictate a draft in GPT with some clear words, some misspelled ones, and some xxx, where xxx are few placeholder words for AI to fill in.
> Ask AI to only fix spelling and fill in xxx with few words only (ideally your dictation will only leave little room)
> Check Pangram
It'll almost surely be 100% human.
Experiment 2:
> Ask GPT to write few sentences
> Lightly paraphrase it while keeping the flow/sentence structure the same
> Check Pangram
It'll almost surely be 100% AI.
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Striking detail in the big NYT piece on Taiwanese families adjusting to working at the huge new TSMC chip plant in Arizona: their surprise at the lack of rigor in US schools.
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Grammarly is terrible... basically a cheating app.
It not only nudges students into avoiding doing their own writing and thinking, but now has integrated AI detection and humanizer—tools that serve no purpose other than to deceive readers.
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The naysayers are getting embarrassing. Every day, people are using AI to make incredible breakthroughs and answer some of the toughest questions around, like "what do I like about my child?"
In this discourse it is important to remember that ivy league law profs and community college profs are all involved. Need to disaggregate.
My most illiterate and most literate students don't hold this view. It's the semi-literate, the midwit-literate, that just wants to go to a trade school.
At 6'5, height does become a liability for a guy. "Why are you not a professional athlete? What is wrong?"
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Reading is one of the best things you can do and costs like $20 for six hours, tops. In many cases it's free. The people who make it possible live in penury and the whole modern economy is organized against it.
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Anyone who dare says memorization is not necessary in education, is not a credible educator. There is nothing to dispute the importance of memorization despite many attempts to downplay it in contemporary public education.
