They just say stuff for results. They have an emotion and they’ll say whatever supports it, even if they said something contradictory earlier. They are, frankly, stupid and dishonest people.

I never thought this would need saying, but the point of writing essays in school is not the final product.

Surely people don’t really think that? I say that, and then I think about some of the colossally stupid things I’ve heard people say and say about education.

Yes.

Primarily, too much fear response. Fear makes you stupid.

Secondarily, too much in-group loyalty. They’ll do and believe anything if that’s what the group believes.

I sort of hate podcasts. I don’t want parasocial relationships. I don’t want to hear in 30 minutes what I could have read in 3, with better options for following up (highlight -> search vs “what did they say? how do you spell that?”)

What point do you think it’s trying to make. Seems obvious to me.

I don’t think they solved for the LLM breaking character yet. Like, as a kid I wanted to be able to have whole real conversations with NPCs, and get them to be more life-like. But with the technology now, there’s too much “forget all previous instructions” and “you are absolutely right”.

If the LLM is locked down, then you might as well just used a static script.

I thought about getting one but then I got laid off from my good paying job. Then they made it expensive with expensive games. So, no.

If capital wants us to spend money they need to pay us more first.

Is the backpack better than a cart? I have a big old cart (it folds) I use for large laundry and grocery trips. There’s sidewalks here, though.

Javascript is a horrible language, but it is ubiquitous. You’ll want to spend a little time on html and css if you expect them to do more than print output.

You could focus on TypeScript, which will help them avoid some of the worst things, but then you spend more time on tooling and it won’t just run in the browser console.

Python is a reasonably popular language with a good standard library. It has fewer bizarre quirks like adding two lists of ints together to get a string.

I wouldn’t teach C to a general audience.

Is it? I think if you include opportunity cost and “well i switched to an electric car now i falsely believe the problem is solved”, not so much.

It’s just easier, in some ways, because it’s a smaller change.

Jokes aside, isn’t this also a phenomenon with finishing books and TV shows?

I’ve had the same thought. When I finish a really good, lengthy, book it feels similar to when you lose touch with friends.

Humans are lazy and kind of stupid. Given an easy option that works more than, I don’t know, 50% of the time, they’ll do it.

I wonder if anyone’s done studies on how often a “shortcut” has to fail before people stop using it.

I would guess that many people have never lived in a good, dense, location. My parents would vote for farther apart, but when they think of the city they think of The Warriors

It’d be interesting to poll only people who have lived in a variety of places.

I grew up in a car-focused suburb and never want to go back.

Being able to admit fault, admit being wrong, updating their worldview, emotional regulation.

You’ve probably all encountered the kind of person who when challenged has a whole melt down. You say something like “I’m not eating meat today because it’s bad for the environment and animals” and they have a whole name-calling meltdown. Too stupid to handle their sense of being good person threatened.

One of my old bosses complained I asked too many questions about requirements. They’d give me poorly defined tasks and I’d be like “what do you want it to do when the user has no name in the system?”. Then they’d get annoyed.

But if I just made a decision, like sorting my ID, they’d be like “that’s stupid why didn’t you sort by sign up date?”

It won’t make things better all on its own. The things that enable and create him are still around. I mean, unless there was like a plane with a whole lot of republicans and billionaires all together and it went down in a fiery crash with no survivors. That might make a big enough vacuum for change.

Most of the people don’t want to be convinced. They come adamant that they won’t change their opinion

I link this comic a lot but I think it’s often relevant: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe

Basically, people don’t believe things or accept facts that conflict with their emotions.

I don’t know. A coworker years ago said to me “you have to make what you want people to do the easy thing”, and I think he was right. But someone still has to do work. Back then, it was me changing the deploy script to automatically run tests and open the report so people had to go out of their way to skip all that.

I’m not sure what that looks like for the fediverse. Linking them directly? Some sort of “sign up with Google” SSO mechanism? Just make the account for your friend and give it to them?

Ideally we’d go up one level and address why people are so mentally depleted they can’t handle a sign up form.

I’ve been using Linux with Nvidia for a few years now without any problems. I don’t play the most cutting edge stuff at high resolution, but like path of exile 2, elden ring, expedition 33 all ran just fine.

Yeah, that could be some of it. We can’t all be perfect all the time. It’s impossible.

I’d appreciate more honest appraisals, though. “I know Twitter is garbage run by a Nazi, but I got linked to it and scrolled a bit” is far better than “well other people are worse so who cares”. There’s this childish whataboutism that a lot of people bring out to justify their poor behavior.