This is how I’d explain it. More specifically this is an example of a concept called a “dummy pronoun” in English. Phrases like “it is clear that…” Or “it is raining” are using “it” as a dummy pronoun. They’re used to express a verb without expressing a subject. in other words, [verb] is happening.
I wouldn’t complain if we brought back þe thorn.
deleted by creator
I feel the pause of the Oxford comma when I speak. Always throws off the rhythm of a sentence when I don’t see it in text.
But they don’t have to reach the ground or get in your way, and you can make them light and breathable but also repel water and protect you from the wind, but you can also open them up and move them out of your way by wearing them as a sort of cape which also lets the breeze in… They also look neat. I like cloaks.
It makes me upset that we’re probably going to find a cure for aging before we find a way to get the old generations to adapt to change.
And then we all flush at the same time too and the entire school gets launched into the air.
It’s a real shame then that I’m a complete idiot.
I AM A MAN… WITH FIVE TOILETS
I think things would get a bit more complicated than that, unfortunately.
Alright, you do have a point there. Reading docs and asking questions is a skill too, and if you haven’t learned them yet then chatgpt can stunt your growth there, i agree with that much.
I still think that chatgpt, if used correctly, can be a huge boon to your education. Knowing how to interact with those bots to avoid their shortcomings and not use them as a crutch I think is also a skill worth learning.
Know what, that’s stupid and reductive and not even accurate to what I said, but fuck it, yes. Yes actually. Because i value my time and sanity and other people’s time and sanity. Just because i eat out every now and then doesn’t mean I can’t cook.
No, learning is there part where you have to think. That’s not when you use the robot. You use the robot when the documentation is trash and unusable and every answer you find is out of date. You use the robot when you know exactly what you want to do and how to do it and you don’t have time to trawl through the docs for the next 2 hours. You use the robot when the only gimp 2.10 tutorial on earth for how to write plugins tells you to use this funny program called gimptool but you’re new to gimp dev so you look online to see what that is only to find that there’s no mention of it literally anywhere besides your current tutorial and a disjointed man page where you can’t find the source anywhere, and the devs are all on irc and you don’t want to bother them and you’re worried that they’re just going to tell you to read the tutorial you already came from and you’ll leave empty handed. That’s when you ask the robot. It has a use, you don’t have to substitute your thinking to use it.
and there are so many cases in programming where you can save hours asking a really simple question that should be easy to figure out on your own but actually isn’t.
If anything, better education would genetically select in favor of more stupid people. If you’re stupid and can get by because of a phenomenal education then guess being stupid was smart enough.
Whether what you’ve described is actually how things work or not (it’s not) doesn’t matter though. Because breeding entire populations takes thousands of years and will not solve any of our problems today. It’s really not worth talking about.
A rock would probably run the USA better than either. At least it couldn’t mess anything up.
… Are you arguing for or against things getting worse?
I didn’t read the article, i just want to rant into the void about this thing that itches in my mind when I see this topic.
I don’t want a robot that looks human. Even if they manage to make one that’s convincing and isn’t nightmare fuel, I’m still going to be uncomfortable around it. It’s because of the fact that this robot’s existence would be inherently deceptive, trying to fool you into thinking you’re talking to a human, only for you to find out that this thing isn’t human. It falls out of the visual uncanny valley, but into an entirely new one, a more existential uncanny valley. If you want me to trust a robot, you can’t make it immediately try to deceive me into thinking it’s human. Look at movies and cartoons, the most appealing robots in those media are obviously robots. I’m sure there are a good few Androids that look human and are appealing in their own way, but for the most part you get things like Wall-e, or baymax, or r2d2, designs that are not trying to fool you into thinking they’re human. All of those designs have a charm or appeal to them, and they all look like robots. I don’t know where I’m going with this, I’m gonna go to bed.