Corrective transactions?
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Peer to peer, or peer to creepy pedo, is how the stuff gets passed around regardless.
Do you have any idea the sorts of things kids send via SMS?
In the state I live in, public education is a constitutional. Yet the state can predicate my child’s constitutional rights on using Google Classroom.
Google Classroom also has workaround that expose kids to harmful materials.
While homeschooling is an option, I have a constitutional right to send my kids to public school. The school lends them free notebooks, which they then control.
Some have strict settings - not enough to prevent toxic content - while others let lots of crap in.
All without me spending a dime.
The state would breed wolves on the island then release them on the mainland to keep the deer in check.
Sorry to ruin your metaphor, but we really need more wolves.
I really don’t care about what’s on the internet, until my kids get exposed to it. How grownups talk to other grownups in private isn’t my concern.
But when kids - and I mean my kids - enter the loop it becomes my business, and ideological concerns go out the window.
I’ve ranted and raved about how terrible filtering software is, and how school provided computers contain massive workarounds.
The real concern isn’t porn sites — the real concern is poorly moderated social media sites. Ones where kids post things other kids see. And guess what the kids post?
But a lot of the nasty content shared in these poorly moderated sites gets it start elsewhere.
I’m cynical about any law, but my bias toward legal action is only increasing as the online situation is only getting worse.
The current VP is a stupid redneck hick from Appalachia who … you can Google him.
Point is, one way of responding to regional decline (Appalachia was once the wealthiest part of America) is to move.
But it can be hard to encourage adoption. It’s not HTTP, or a conventional queue system.
Requires lots of explanations, thinking, and eventually meetings.
Sir Thomas More’s grandfather was a butcher - a highly stigmatized occupation. More rose to be Chancellor.
The fact that the British conquered a third of the world created many opportunities for advancement- military, commercial, artistic.
Sir John Major came from a family of musicians. When he ran for PM, his enemies said as a child he “ran away from the circus to become an accountant.”
Part of the issues is that people copy elites. A blacksmith from Birmingham would marry his daughter off to a banker, and the granddaughter off to a Baron. The family would spend money supporting artists, and build cathedrals. And eventually become “posh.”
A good example are the Rothschilds, who are currently at the height or British aristocracy, but were once grubby merchants.
I have a relative who is illiterate despite graduating from HS and attending a reputable college (for 2 years).
Very bright man, and able to use technology to hide his illiteracy. Listens to very dense books on Audible.
We should be the last occupation to be replaced by machines.
Maybe I’m stupid, but I’m stupidly optimistic.
The economy has been moving upward since 2013 - 12 years ago. What were you doing from 2013 to 2020?
I ask because I also graduated around ‘08. I’ve been a software developer since 2016. I’m currently a senior dev with almost a decade of experience.
There were really crappy years to start with, but I feel I’ve made up for it substantially.
My own parents graduated in the late 70s during a terrible economic recession.
It seems weathering economic recessions have been a tradition for several generations.
I still remember articles almost identical to the ones I see now; “this generation is screwed and there is no possible salvation.”
It’s getting old.
I suspect, but can’t prove, that model trainers deliberately steer models away from creating tests and worksheets.
The reason being that when a human asks a written question: “who president of the US in 1962?” it’s very likely to be a part of a worksheet.
Novels don’t contain many questions like that, nor do non fiction. They’re mostly paragraphs. Most text is mostly paragraphs.
Naked question usually means worksheet. AIs know this, so their if you ask it a question like: “who president in 1962?” It responds which the most likely next sentence, a related question: “How was the Cuban Missile resolved?”
So there’s a huge discrepancy between the next most likely sentence based on training, and what a user likely wants. If I ask, “Who was president in 1962?” I don’t want another question, nor does anyone else.
But that’s what the training data provides.
So model trainers have to bias it away from worksheets. This isn’t hard to do, and is a normal part of model training.
I’ve personally seen this behavior in poorly parameterized or trained models. They love answering questions by assuming they are in worksheets. It’s a huge pain.
Interestingly it never happens with top-line models like ChatGPT.
Carefully hyperparameterizatiin helps, but I think you’ll have to adjust the weights too. But that likely makes it harder to make actual worksheets.
This is just a guess. But I suspect models are weighted to discount pedagogical materials because of how different they are from what the users often expect.
You’ve censored out some names as “redacted” but it’s pretty easy to fill in at least one name by other articles in the site. If you want anonymity, consider doing a broad review.
I’m not trying to dox you - it’s totally up you what to share.
But some of the articles seem to be private, while others seem very public.
Which is cool, but there are limits to the number of times you can do that.
At the end of the day, the little man has to flip the switch.
Gifted students especially.
Students who learn ahead don’t want to be told: “ok you have the material, so I’ll ignore you for a bit.” They want more. They want their questions answered, even if the questions aren’t part of the lesson plan.
Nobody wants to be told “we aren’t studying that today.”
You really can’t starve the rest of the class to cater to poor performers.
The worst part was being ostracized. The school had anti-bullying policies, but they don’t force anyone to be your friend.
Strangely, I was elected to lots of student government office, and held leadership in lots of clubs.
Maybe my memory is just off, but I don’t think so.
I think I was really good connecting with the grownups who ran the school, so they made sure I got leadership positions.
I was always much better at being the kid in class the teacher liked - same with principals, etc.
Probably one of the reasons the other kids didn’t like me - but that went over my head.
I think it’s really easy to overestimate how important the socialization in public schools is. We go to so many movies where the plot is based on the dynamics of public high school, we assume it’s normal.
We see so much of terrible stuff downplaid like it doesn’t matter. Just rewatched Back to the Future which laughingly brushes off every kind of violence as long as it’s done at the prom.
The adults I know most against college went to college themselves.
The adults I know most against private high schools went to private high schools themselves.
Being really negative about your own education is an American tradition!