reasonablywittyatbest

[reasonablywittyatbest]

biggest L i've had to take from morning people is that the hours between 5 - 9 am really do have 7x as much time in them than the ones between 9 pm - 1 am and you can get your whole day's worth of shit done by noon

[reasonablywittyatbest]

give me the aux cable

[reasonablywittyatbest]

kill the imposter syndrome in your head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they’re also using chat gpt to do it

[reasonablywittyatbest]

"Why not make female heroes more feminine so girls know you don't have to be masculine to save the world" is misguided. The target audience of heroic adventure genre is not children who actually save the world in a literal sense, it's children who want a cathartic outlet for the struggles and injustice they face. And one of the most common types of injustice that many girls and children assumed to be girls are subjected to is forced feminization.

[reasonablywittyatbest]

it’s quick, it’s easy and it’s free:  pouring river water in your socks

[reasonablywittyatbest]

[reasonablywittyatbest]

*flirting with an older man* when i was born you had already attempted suicide once

[reasonablywittyatbest]

Small shaggy horses adapted to harshly cold climates are so woefully neglected in historical/fantasy media

[reasonablywittyatbest]

pride month!!!

[reasonablywittyatbest]

Ok I'm going to put this a different way for you. The ultimate end goal is prison abolition. That doesn't mean we shouldn't work on prison reform in the meantime. Same thing.

It will take years if not decades to fix the system and thats if we have the ability to do so while we're putting out all the fires being light right now. So, in the meantime we need to find a solution for this issue, which is causing very real harm RIGHT NOW.

Anyways this post is me arguing about why AI is different from all the ways students have found to cheat and cope in the current system and its incredibly harmful

Whenever I think about students using AI, I think about an essay I did in high school. Now see, we were reading The Grapes of Wrath, and I just couldn't do it. I got 25 pages in and my brain refused to read any more. I hated it. And its not like I hate the classics, I loved English class and I loved reading. I had even enjoyed Of Mice and Men, which I had read for fun. For some reason though, I absolutely could NOT read The Grapes of Wrath.

And it turned out I also couldn't watch the movie. I fell asleep in class both days we were watching it.

This, of course, meant I had to cheat on my essay.

And I got an A.

The essay was to compare the book and the movie and discuss the changes and how that affected the story.

Well it turned out Sparknotes had an entire section devoted to comparing and contrasting the book and the movie. Using that, and flipping to pages mentioned in Sparknotes to read sections of the book, I was able to bullshit an A paper.

But see the thing is, that this kind of 'cheating' still takes skills, you still learn things.

I had to know how to find the information I needed, I needed to be able to comprehend what sparknotes was saying and the analysis they did, I needed to know how to USE the information I read there to write an essay, I needed to know how to make sure none of it was marked as plagerized. I had to form an opinion on the sparknotes analysis so I could express my own opinions in the essay.

Was it cheating? Yeah, I didn't read the book or watch the movie. I used Sparknotes. It was a lot less work than if I had read the book and watched the movie and done it all myself.

The thing is though, I still had to use my fucking brain. Being able to bullshit an essay like that is a skill in and of itself that is useful. I exercised important skills, and even if it wasnt the intended way I still learned.

ChatGTP and other AI do not give that experience to people, people have to do nothing and gain nothing from it.

Using AI is absolutely different from other ways students have cheated in the past, and I stand by my opinion that its making students dumber, more helpless, and less capable.

However you feel about higher education, I think its undeniable that students using chatgtp is to their detriment. And by extension a detriment to anyone they work with or anyone who has to rely on them for something.

[reasonablywittyatbest]

[reasonablywittyatbest]

“A pop can tab opener? Who needs that?”

It’s not for you.

“Why would anyone get a hairdryer holder, just use your hands to hold it.”

It’s not for you.

“Portable collapsible stools are proof of how lazy this generation is getting.”

It’s not for you.

“A chord assist for a guitar? Why don’t people just user their fingers like everyone else?”

IT’S NOT FOR YOU.

Fun fact! Not everything is about or for you!

[reasonablywittyatbest]

This post is not about the flaws in the education system and how it needs to be changed. That is a different conversation. This post is about how AI is effecting the here and now, how it's damaging people here and now, and how it it going to cause problems in the very near future.

And hey, you're right, most people don't get an education to learn about books but they do in fact do it to learn skills! Skills they will be expected to know! This is about how it used to be when you cheated you still learned applicable skills! Now they're not learning the same skills which is leaving them helpless!

Sure the education system is flawed and fixing it is the end goal! But you can't ignore the immediate and current issues, you can't dismiss them because they are part of a broken system. Its the only system we currently have.

We work towards the ideal future, yeah, but we cant ignore the very real present!!!

Whenever I think about students using AI, I think about an essay I did in high school. Now see, we were reading The Grapes of Wrath, and I just couldn't do it. I got 25 pages in and my brain refused to read any more. I hated it. And its not like I hate the classics, I loved English class and I loved reading. I had even enjoyed Of Mice and Men, which I had read for fun. For some reason though, I absolutely could NOT read The Grapes of Wrath.

And it turned out I also couldn't watch the movie. I fell asleep in class both days we were watching it.

This, of course, meant I had to cheat on my essay.

And I got an A.

The essay was to compare the book and the movie and discuss the changes and how that affected the story.

Well it turned out Sparknotes had an entire section devoted to comparing and contrasting the book and the movie. Using that, and flipping to pages mentioned in Sparknotes to read sections of the book, I was able to bullshit an A paper.

But see the thing is, that this kind of 'cheating' still takes skills, you still learn things.

I had to know how to find the information I needed, I needed to be able to comprehend what sparknotes was saying and the analysis they did, I needed to know how to USE the information I read there to write an essay, I needed to know how to make sure none of it was marked as plagerized. I had to form an opinion on the sparknotes analysis so I could express my own opinions in the essay.

Was it cheating? Yeah, I didn't read the book or watch the movie. I used Sparknotes. It was a lot less work than if I had read the book and watched the movie and done it all myself.

The thing is though, I still had to use my fucking brain. Being able to bullshit an essay like that is a skill in and of itself that is useful. I exercised important skills, and even if it wasnt the intended way I still learned.

ChatGTP and other AI do not give that experience to people, people have to do nothing and gain nothing from it.

Using AI is absolutely different from other ways students have cheated in the past, and I stand by my opinion that its making students dumber, more helpless, and less capable.

However you feel about higher education, I think its undeniable that students using chatgtp is to their detriment. And by extension a detriment to anyone they work with or anyone who has to rely on them for something.

[reasonablywittyatbest]

[reasonablywittyatbest]

Support me on PATREON or Ko-fi 💕

[reasonablywittyatbest]

Nosferatu mug set.

[reasonablywittyatbest]

we need to start teaching baby fags that it's okay to be fat and/or old because it's really starting to get dire out here