People want magic in their lives so much they will invent an imaginary friend in their computer Reading literature performs a similar function on a way higher more satisfying level, I think
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You could listen to a favorite song! Music has been magic since, well, always
aug 20, 2025, 2:33 am • 3 0 • view
yeah and in the same way, it has secret messages that seem like they are for you alone
aug 20, 2025, 2:35 am • 1 0 • view
listen to music in a language you don’t understand, be moved by the pure emotion of it
aug 20, 2025, 2:44 am • 2 0 • view
If people better understood how generative AI works, they would be embarrassed to post this shit in public. Also big yes to books being far superior, not least of all because there's an actual person on the other side and not just a noisy data center.
aug 20, 2025, 3:30 pm • 1 0 • view
I have to teach with/about it this year. and I am terrified even to open it omg. I don't want to know.
aug 20, 2025, 2:28 am • 1 0 • view
Wow! that's intense. But so far it seems to me like it exposes rather than creates imaginative deficiencies and instability in people (??) come back and tell us how it goes!
aug 20, 2025, 2:33 am • 0 0 • view
I teach nerdy science and engineering students, who are likely to identify actual practical useful uses for it. But I just read 300 freshman essays and omg it was scary how many were bland bland bland nearly identical and voiceless. And then, miracle!, the occasional essay with a real kid's voice! 😬
aug 20, 2025, 2:36 am • 2 0 • view
dang
aug 20, 2025, 2:37 am • 1 0 • view
yup
aug 20, 2025, 2:42 am • 0 0 • view
Blows my mind how many people simply don't understand how generative AI works and that, contrary to popular belief, it's just not sentient! Not saying we'll never get to AGI, maybe with chips made from biological materials ... but that's sci-fi for the foreseeable future.
aug 20, 2025, 6:10 pm • 0 0 • view
"To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come" - you know who
aug 21, 2025, 5:17 pm • 0 0 • view