davidknuffke.bsky.social
American Teacher well away from America. Worker Bee.
Pretty sure that I’m both imperfect and doing mostly the right things.
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Turns out the same limits in physics that kept this from working then are still functioning in the Universe. Not every truth is up for grabs with every election.
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We’re going to re-up our boosters before we head back to the US this summer. Because…this 🤦🏻♂️
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I would agree if he didn’t have a long history of crapping all over schools and teachers. NdGT is super-prone to holding forth on things he does not know a whole lot about. See, as another example, his comments on Philosophy.
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In point of fact, the nation voted against one just recently 😥
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I agree that school can and should be better. I blanche at the idea that it is responsible for the current moment. Sure seems to take a lot of blame off of late stage capitalism and the decay of social safety nets.
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And to come from the CEO of a company that has just had to dial back their “AI strategy” is notable.
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I have no doubt that some amount of students will learn well using an LLM. Just as some do well in an apprenticeship, in an online school, etc.
But to broaden that to “school, as we know it, won’t exist except to watch children” is nonsense.
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This error is made all the time by leaders.
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Agreed, though I’m not sure that discernment is definitionally absent in all LLM usage.
I think there’s value in brainstorming with other people for the social-discursive aspect regardless of any other “value”. Increasingly, I think the post-LLM value in school will be found in the social pieces.
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Does brainstorming as a group or class mean the same thing? If not, what makes them different?
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Guilt is something I suspect every reflective person does reflexively, but it also doesn’t do much good for those without, absent actions. Endeavor to use your privilege to help make the world better for everyone who doesn’t have the same amount of privilege. Which can also help with the guilt.
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I am not sure if “private prison operator” is the least-moral job in the world, but it’s well toward the top of the list.
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Thanks. So are you saying that you think there’s a concern around the quality of thought and from and learning by young people? Would love to hear more about this if you’d be interested in sharing. No worries if not.
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One suspects that cardiac surgeons will be doing the surgery many times prior to operating on you, making however they learned it outside of the practical aspect a bit ancillary. I don’t disagree with the sentiment, but this example seems kind of silly.
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I’d love to know what you think comprise the roots of that desperation if you’d be open to sharing?
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Within a fermi estimate of 10^2 miles per hour 😉
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The notion that more “intelligence” is going to solve hard problems feels like the shakiest of hypotheses.
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He’s been railing against the same figment for as long as I have been aware of him.
Nuance, flexibility, and context are not accounted for in the “science” of learning. Which is exactly what is to be expected given that, you know, no one knows how people learn.
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At some point you start believing your own caricature 🤷🏻♂️