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New comment by HKH2 in "Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school"

HKH2 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 07:47:14 +0000

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

New comment by HKH2 in "Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school"

HKH2 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 05:06:56 +0000

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

New comment by HKH2 in "Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school"

HKH2 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 01:48:14 +0000

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

New comment by HKH2 in "Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school"

HKH2 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 01:09:07 +0000

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.

New comment by HKH2 in "Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school"

HKH2 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:52:59 +0000

> 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 guard is down. Imagine if it told you you were an idiot and then corrected you.

New comment by HKH2 in "US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks"

HKH2 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 04:29:22 +0000

What if you omit states that depend on welfare?

New comment by HKH2 in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

HKH2 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:18:23 +0000

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

New comment by HKH2 in "OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens"

HKH2 — Sun, 17 May 2026 13:15:09 +0000

VLC, Blender, OBS Studio, Krita...

New comment by HKH2 in "Access to frontier AI will soon be limited by economic and security constraints"

HKH2 — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:39:34 +0000

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

New comment by HKH2 in "Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead"

HKH2 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:49:18 +0000

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). He makes it clear that social trust goes down because of it.

New comment by HKH2 in "Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead"

HKH2 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:15:35 +0000

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

New comment by HKH2 in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

HKH2 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:43:19 +0000

Israel would still get the US to attack Iran regardless.

New comment by HKH2 in "Hold on to Your Hardware"

HKH2 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 12:01:59 +0000

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 younger gamers play Roblox and Minecraft. Will they grow up and start playing more GPU-heavy games, or will they continue to play where their friends are?

Being free is exactly what has made those platforms as well as mobile games so popular. Are they going to start paying for subscriptions?

New comment by HKH2 in "Hold on to Your Hardware"

HKH2 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:17:54 +0000

> 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 graphics. Younger gamers care more about having fun than having an immersive experience.

New comment by HKH2 in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

HKH2 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:51:30 +0000

The paradox of the paradox of tolerance.

New comment by HKH2 in "Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI"

HKH2 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 11:09:03 +0000

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

New comment by HKH2 in "We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science"

HKH2 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:21:01 +0000

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. You learn some basic characters and then you can guess the rest. (Learning to write without a computer is definitely more of a challenge though.)

New comment by HKH2 in "We (As a Society) Peaked in the 90s"

HKH2 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 11:44:09 +0000

> 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 presupposed the outcome?

New comment by HKH2 in "FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE"

HKH2 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:59:51 +0000

"bystanders"

New comment by HKH2 in "GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers"

HKH2 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 11:56:54 +0000

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