philippleitner.net
Associate Professor @ Chalmers University of Technology
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Even the most positive interpretation of this request ("let the area develop before regulating it") feels mostly like a desire to establish a fait accompli situation for future regulators.
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If you feel you can't make a joke now that would have at most raised a few eyebrows in your youth, that just shows that society is developed and you better adapt with it. There is no deep societal loss of discourse there, just you slowly turning into a dinosaur (like we all are, realistically).
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Sure, *what* type of speech can get your reputation ruined changes over time. But that's neither new nor problematic - society changes, and with it what thoughts are considered normal, controversial, or entirely out of line.
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Anybody remember the red scare, and how completely normal everybody reacted to even a hint of "communism" back then? The good old times of entirely unrestricted free speech, right?
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Btw , I take no responsibility for this thumbnail ;)
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Ok, there's a fourth one
(4) With an infinite budget, we could be outstanding
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“we need to teach kids AI in school”
okay, give them homework then
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Sinabelkirchen oder Stinatz. Dann kann auch STS antreten.
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I would be shocked if that's not already happening in OSS, because we see it in industry, among students, and even when writing code ourselves. But there is basically 0 traceability lines or statements are machine-written (which may be a problem in and of itself).
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I think AI "boosters" and sceptics are talking past each other. When people say "AI is writing code", they don't (yet?) mean "take a ticket and implement it end-to-end", they mean "a human developer has used ChatGPT or Copilot to generate a meaningful part of it, before manually adapting it".
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Everything is a process, and as usual it will not be pain free (for either side).
For what it’s worth, I quite enjoy(ed) teaching more vocational skills.
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For us as universities, this will mean that we have to lean even more heavily into concepts, theory, and understanding in our teaching, rather than teaching students vocational skills such as programming languages, frameworks, and technology.
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I thought we already understand this dynamic
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On a more serious note, it's an actual problem that younger students increasingly do not perceive email as a standard communication protocol anymore. If students do not read their student email (which many don't), there is literally *no* uniform way to reach them all anymore.
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Also, how *incredibly* weak is the Democratic Party outside of AOC? What the hell is even going on there?
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These tariffs are intended to set everybody back, including economically rivalling developed countries, but also (and maybe worst) developing countries. Of course it also affects the US, but the rich will survive and it's not like Trump cares a great deal about poor Americans.
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I also have a cynical theory why - he indeed tries to make America great again.
Why is it not so great right now? Because other countries are catching up, and there are fewer and fewer countries to exploit and economically bully around the world.