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downbootson What universities and higher education demand today

Organized, attentive, nuanced, articulate, adaptable, critical thinking.

downbootson Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10057979-perhaps-i-could-be...

downbootson Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch

We'll hopefully look back at these like we now see asbestos. All our scientific advancement doesn't automatically cure myopia. https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/disappearing-pod/how-...

downbootson Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem

Whoosh

downbootson Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem

It doesn't matter if you use a car or go there walking. If your goal is cave exploration, the tools are irrelevant.

downbootson How many biological substrates of life?

Does turing machine count?

downbootson Simulacrum of Knowledge Work

Yes. I think the main warning here is that it is an added risk. A little glitch here and there until something breaks.

downbootson Simulacrum of Knowledge Work

Feels like a parallel with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivism_%28philosophy_o... where "it's not valid until you checked"

downbootson Education must go beyond the mere production of words

> accurately represent a reality is going to become increasingly important

I personally perceive a decoupling all over the board. Not just in language. You hear terms like "wage stagnation" or "degree inflation". Just choose an area. They're all detachments from the true thing they represented.

downbootson Surveillance Pricing: Exploiting Information Asymmetries

No problem https://i.redd.it/1c3h2y6uzks61.jpg

downbootson Ping-pong robot beats top-level human players

Robo-augmented padel, the future

downbootson New study compares growing corn for energy to solar production

Corn cyborgs, the future

downbootson The Engine, a fictional device to generate permutations of word sets

https://libraryofbabel.app/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47709158

downbootson Opus 4.7 is horrible at writing

> Similar experiences?

Regardless of which one. They're too verbose. They repeat information. They lack cohesion. Overly agreeable. The flaws are part of the tool.