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Adult students who have had real world experience tend to take learning more seriously because they can see a context for it.

Okay, I was generalising from experience; most students I've met lack intrinsic motivation. School systems typically encourage students to depend on extrinsic motivation.

Students need motivation to honestly and openly talk about their doubts or lack of understanding.

Tutors should be able to approximate the ZPD better than any student can. Most students lack intrinsic motivation and it's a tutor's job to help them get started.

> Gemini does this weird thing where it tells you you're a genius and then immediately starts correcting everything you said. That's a great way to get you to listen because your g…

What if you omit states that depend on welfare?

Nah on the receiving end an AI makes a summary of it.

VLC, Blender, OBS Studio, Krita...

They can just get plotters to write their homework for them.

Not being as happy and being unhappy are not the same. Regardless, you should read Robert Putnam's essay, E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the Twenty-First Century (2007…

I can't see how all the mental overhead of modern multicultural living can make you happier either.

Israel would still get the US to attack Iran regardless.

I'm saying that younger generations don't seem to care about realism as much as they care about having fun creating and sharing things with their friends. A large proportion of you…

> I can already see Nvidia rubbing their hands together in expectation of the massive influx of customers to their cloud gaming platform. Roblox is not popular because of its graph…

The paradox of the paradox of tolerance.

Yeah, in the future we will mourn the loss of the art of creating a new JS framework every week.

It's like learning to read English after speaking fluently for a few years. You may only need the letter sounds and then you can guess the rest. Learning Chinese works that way. Yo…

> How can we have a constructive conversation about this, come to a consensus that things are not okay now, and move forward? How can it be a constructive conversation if you have …

"bystanders"

That is how it should be, yes. Do PhDs always meet that standard though? No.

I don't necessarily disagree, but researchers are not required to be good communicators. An academic can lead their field and be a terrible lecturer. A specialist can let a general…

What about externalities? What about policy makers going after short-term gains?

Society depends on long-term 'happiness'. Short-term 'happiness' often makes society worse.

Ironically, quite a few Linux-compatible games only work for me in compatibility mode.

Yeah that sounds like wisdom, not intelligence.