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i was jumanji’d too when i was a kid but no one cared

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I think it's a drunk art kind of night

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I had to go to a new town, and since one of my favorite things to do is explore little shops in tiny towns, after I've completed my town task, I start walking around and going in and out of shops.

I go into a used furniture store, but they're remodeling so all the furniture is stacked on top of each other all the way to the ceiling, so I look a little and talk about prices with the two women there, but ultimately thank them and leave without buying anything.

Then I wander further down the street and find a cute little antique store so I wander in. I'm having a good time browsing, but the store is completely empty. No clerk. Which is actually ideal, because it means no small talk or salesman's expectations.

But, when I've been in there for two minutes, one of the women from the first furniture store comes in. And upon seeing my confused face, says, "Oh, I just work at the other place on Thursdays. I own this one. I have a little beeper that alerts me when someone comes in."

Okay then. But now I feel bad, because I'm just browsing and not planning on buying anything, yet I made this woman leave her other job and hustle down here for nothing. Regardless, I look for a little bit longer and then leave.

I wander some more before going into a craft shop, which is also empty, but only for a moment, before the same woman comes out of the back, but in a different shirt.

And she sees my mingled look of disappointment (how many times am I going to bother this woman?) and confusion (how did she get to this one so fast? When did she have time to change her shirt?), she laughs and says, "You must have just come from my sister's antique store."

Anyways, I am now outlawing identical twins in practice and they are also now forbidden from owning multiple stores on the same block.

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going to college will have you passing by the business classrooms and inside the professor will be writing something like "success = (effort × smartness) + time" and a class full of 30+ people will be writing it down like it has any basis in reality at all

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Cunk on Life (2024)

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"average Disney princess killed 127 people" factoid actually just statistical error, average Disney princess killed at most 1 person. Hua Mulan, who lives in China

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everyone here is missing how there's ways they could've used the same tools they used to skillfully cheat to unskillfully cheat. the same internet used to find relevant info to quickly bullshit together into a paper could've been used to find a paper someone else had written and just plagiarize it as their own. but they didn't. because that would've made it easier to get caught. any instance u can show me of someone artfully cheating in a way where they still learned something, i can show u a dozen instances of someone cheating simply and stupidly in a way that didn't teach them anything (or even serve as an example of wit or skill). so i ask u, is the problem with the tool, or with how its used. i can think of no less than 3 distinct ways of using ai to assist in the same kind of cheating but which still take skill and knowledge to execute well. the issue is never the tool, only how its used.

plus the tech is brand spanking new. u gotta give ppl time to develop a relationship with it before they'll be using it creatively or interestingly. most of the use the printing press saw in its early days was copying the fucking bible. give students time, i promise u, the kids will be alright

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.

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Romeo + Juliet (1996) dir. Baz Luhrmann

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“These are the eyes of a Strawberry Conch (Conomurex luhuanus). They inhabit the shallow tropical waters of the Great Barrier Reef and feed on algae and detritus.” © Lawrence Scheele

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Hades II (2024) dev. Supergiant Games Melinoë UI Sprites

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Fixed it.