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

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.

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.

That a hot dog is not a taco

"Natural" means healthy

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.

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'

That the cereal should be poured before the milk.

That a god exists.

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.

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.

Pick literally any religion.

Pick literally any belief.

That.

That attention span exists as a relevant concept and that people are ruining it with technology.

If our attentiveness is struggling it is undoubtedly because life is harder and crueler these days.

Our attention, if we are being treated humanely and sustainability by the societal conditions around us, is fine (we aren't though, this being the issue).

edit Same thing with all the "kids these days" things about kids not being able to focus, being a kid these days has got to feel hopeless in a million ways that are too crushing to focus on not the least of which are the adults around you condescending your fears of the future even as they destroy it.

People argue back and forth whether capitalism or socialism/communism is a superior system and they are all wrong. Those concepts are just tools. Saying one economic system applies to all situations is as silly as saying the only tool you need to build a house is a hammer.

God.

I think lots of people believe that the ends can justify the means.

But to me, that expression means the same thing as, "Whatever causes a good outcome must not be bad." And I not only disagree with it, I don't even think it makes sense.

I heard a story about a guy who was stabbed in a mugging and during surgery for the stabbing, found out that he had cancer, which saved his life.

But nobody is going to go to the judge during the mugger's trial, and say that his decision to stab the guy was "justified," and so he should be released to stab again with his completely justified stabbing history.

No, the things that are justifiable are those which are good and informed actions. You can't justify bad or ignorant actions simply because of luck.