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Comment No, and stop play-idiocy rhetoric please (Score 2) 69

Answer: No, using AI to write an op-ed has no impact on the report about dismal math skills, besides improving the organization and legibility of the report which is a positive. The most important point is that college students lack elementary school arithmetic skills, and no test is being used to replace SATs. Actually AI might be useful in both teaching remedial skills as well as in evaluating readiness for college. Maybe some effort could be put into developing free, online automated teaching assistance that does not track you, that can be used by any prospective student to see where they stand and attempt to advance. Maybe a non-judgemental, free AI tutor with multiple teaching methods available to it could teach kids fractions for example, and it could be done long before college entrance.

Comment Re:Completely different (Score 1) 69

I don't think AI only dumbs people down, I just think it feeds people's proclivities.

If I look stuff up with AI (sometimes I give up and do it because the search engines are all so shit now) then I double-check what it shows me and I learn unrelated things in the process.

If you look stuff up with AI and just say "duhhhh OK" and repeat what it says then yeah, that's going to make you dumber.

So basically the people who were getting smarter looking things up without AI can still be getting smarter looking things up with AI... if they know how to think critically.

Comment Re:Just another grift (Score 1) 134

And why should we subsidize bandwidth over reach?

The idea was a future-proof connection, so we weren't paying for old and busted.

Shouldn't Starlink and satellite have the same access to subsidies than Google Fiber, considering they enable people to have internet that otherwise couldn't at all?

No. That doesn't mean they should have no access to subsidies, but they are also substantially more expensive than other options.

Let me also say here that we should nationalize all of the telcos because all of them stole hundreds of billions from us that they were supposed to use to provide high speed internet and gave it to shareholders and executives instead.

Comment Re:100M is enough (Score 2) 134

Honestly, if you want to live in the mountains in bum fuck no where, you can't expect society to provide you a fiber connection. We don't even provide those people with sewer connections for precisely the same reason.

Well, no. The two things are very different. Data leaves down the same "pipe" it came through, while sewage systems and water supply systems are both separate (you hope) and VERY DIFFERENT. They have almost completely different considerations in every department. Also, if you live in the sticks, there's no real drawback to not having a sewer connection.

Comment uh (Score 1) 134

At present, it is impossible to predict long-term technological developments and the evolution of consumer preferences.

Yes, they might prefer slower internet!

This guy has passed right by needing to determine whether people would like fire which can be fitted nasally and on to deserving to have it fitted rectally.

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