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E. Drake Kajioka
@edk
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Game designer, research applier, writer, speaker, parent, teacher fan, impatient optimist, sincere shit disturber. views mine &c. 🎲 they preferred, she accepted. Shifting here from @3spce on twitter.
@deshipu @yacc143 I think that, like AI, all homework is not created equal.
Our middle son is in third grade and has yet to bring home homework except for things like family culture projects that cause him to have conversations with family about our history and traditions. Those projects are certainly valuable and can't really be done at school. I also think projects in general tend to make good homework. Importantly, it's personalized, not a dehumanizing catch-all worksheet.
I know it's more in vogue to just say we should burn all the AI, but this essay to me is such a striking example of how automating language gen allows us to see and appreciate the truly human.
The current education system in the US is not humane. It is yoked to capitalism and is the real machine enemy, a debt generation engine that destroys a love of learning.
This is no slight on educators, who are also victims of the system. 2/
RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115854516419858457
Cory articulates the promise of AI for education: like the calculator made parts of math education obsolete, chatbots make obvious the lifelessness of the five paragraph essay.
The assignment for the future of ed is to create scalable systems that inspire the creation of meaning. The foundation of writing is thinking. By exposing the relative simplicity of fluency, we can push humanity to focus on the value beneath it.
Properly deployed AI helps us be more human. 1/
RE: https://mastodon.social/@edk/115595254558611687
Bumping into my own timeline with the TED talk link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PygUK16aQgk
Worth a listen. A future with stronger libraries is a pro-human (& pro living things thriving) future.
@pluralistic Library rights have always puzzled me a bit.
I have wondered if SF authors specifically have more leverage than they might think as far as carving out non-exclusive library rights on their own books. Let the publishers bundle but allow authors individually to enable their books to be in libraries.
As a citizen the inability to donate an ebook to a library has similarly frustrated me.
Is Mastodon the place to have this conversation?
I've been thinking a lot lately about Wikipedia, decentralization, truth, and the future of open information on the internet.
https://3sxp.ghost.io/the-debate-about-wikipedia-illustrates-the-coming-obsolescence-of-wikipedia/
The debate about Wikipedia illustrates the coming obsolescence of Wikipedia
A quick preface on current events: It is alarming to see members of Congress demanding the identities of Wikipedia administrators, and the acting U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C. threatening the foundation's nonprofit status. The danger is that political actors are trying to replace an independent institution with one
Rudy RuckerNice long interview of me by R.U. Sirius in online Mindplex magazine.
https://magazine.mindplex.ai/r-u-sirius-interviews-rudy-rucker-once-again-of-transrealism-being-happy-infinite-dimensional-hilbert-space/
https://magazine.mindplex.ai/r-u-sirius-interviews-rudy-rucker-once-again-of-transrealism-being-happy-infinite-dimensional-hilbert-space/
R. U. Sirius Interviews Rudy Rucker Once Again: Of Transrealism, Being Happy & Infinite Dimensional Hilbert Space - Mindplex
Back in 1989, when I was part of the Mondo 2000 team and we were preparing our first issue that had a cyberpunk theme, we wanted to be sure we had interviews with what we were referring to as the “cyberpunk fab four.” Frankly speaking, we viewed William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Rudy Rucker and John […]
Bruce Sterling @bruces
Blog post: “Ghiblification” and quick thoughts on distinguishing generation from creativity
"Creativity requires bravery. And bravery is only possible in the presence of fear. A machine has no fear and therefore has no hesitation, but neither does it have bravery."
With thanks to @pluralistic -
“Ghiblification” and quick thoughts on distinguishing generation from creativity
My job has put me in the position of explaining creativity to technologists for a long time now. This function became about a thousand times more fraught as AI-generated images transitioned from “nightmare fuel” to what we see today. Wanting a chance to think about this with people I respected