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New comment by imawakegnxoxo in "All grown-ups were once children, but only few of them remember it"

imawakegnxoxo — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 07:41:41 +0000

Kids are so much smarter and more capable than adults give them credit for, and it is stunting society as a whole

I think infantilisation is a huge part of the reason we're where we are today - kids 100 years ago were working harder jobs than most adults today (not implying child slave labour is a good thing, just making a point)

Kids today, though, are given exactly 0 responsibility and treated like babies the whole way through their prime learning years

I feel so sorry for the next generation

New comment by imawakegnxoxo in "Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI"

imawakegnxoxo — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 03:29:24 +0000

Think of it like software going from programmers understanding every instruction, knowing where every byte of memory was being used and why, and using this knowledge to build optimised systems

During the process of optimising and understanding the programmer might learn something new or have some kind of "aha" moment of insight that might lead them down a new path of study where fantastic new technologies and capabilities can be realised

Fast forward to 2026

Most web pages take several seconds to load

Applications crash often for no apparent reason

A vast majority of programmers have no idea what their applications are actually really even doing anymore, so they stack bloat on top of bloat and if something breaks, well I guess that's someone elses problem cos I have no idea what's going on anymore

There's something to be said about levels of abstraction being useful, but abstracting away understanding of the task itself is not the path to generating useful knowledge or applications for humanity

We might be gaining the "what" but we are losing the "why" and the "how" and these are generally fundamentally more important

The answer is 42 but what is the question?

New comment by imawakegnxoxo in "AI makes the humanities more important, but also weirder"

imawakegnxoxo — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 10:07:50 +0000

I think "everyone gets the exact same test" is a whole level of hell worse than "everyone gets a test that makes sense for their abilities and goals"

Are you just concerned about the administration side of things?

I think the GP here has a pretty reasonable outlook here

"Some people can't do some things the same way as others and that's ok, people are different"

Is the vibe I got from that post

New comment by imawakegnxoxo in "An English castle became a stork magnet"

imawakegnxoxo — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 10:35:12 +0000

Thus, it follows that the polar opposite of a castle is a baby bird

Qed

New comment by imawakegnxoxo in "How the human brain contends with the strangeness of zero"

imawakegnxoxo — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 01:51:20 +0000

What if you divide 0.00000000000000000009 by itself

It actually tends towards 1 no matter how small the divisor

It doesn't always go to 0, hence why it is undefined

New comment by imawakegnxoxo in "Bop Spotter"

imawakegnxoxo — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 09:06:18 +0000

Blitzkrieg.... Hoes?

I've spent a few more minutes than I should have trying to work this out. The only way I can figure this is it's related to the head movement? Still not sure. I sure do have very little love for this generation though

New comment by imawakegnxoxo in "Crafting Interpreters with Rust: On Garbage Collection"

imawakegnxoxo — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 15:31:45 +0000

Hey Bob just made an account to let you know how much I appreciate both of your books and how much of an influence you've made on my life choices

Just want to hopefully make you feel warm inside knowing you've made a really big difference to people's lives

Thanks for being you