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Comment Cheating is too easy (Score 5, Interesting) 102

First of all, props to student 22 who clearly didn't cheat on the midterm and managed to do better on the final, but it looks like about 85 out of 89 students cheated.

With cheating being so easy, professors really need to be having in-person tests to see if the students are learning anything. I wonder if giving students the exact same test out of class and then in class would show who cheated more clearly

Comment Re:This isn't Texas (Score 1) 120

Anyone that knows US history knows the parties have essentially swapped so the people who would have been a racist southern democrat 100 years ago would now be racist southern republicans. Ignoring this and continuing to argue that the modern parties share the values of the past is at best ignorant but most likely a bad faith argument made by someone embarrassed by the position of their fellow conservatives.

Comment Re:This isn't Texas (Score 1) 120

I'd like people to actually be treated equally, without giving prominence to superficialities.

Then you'll be much more at home with the left. Despite some extreme views, that's a view much closer to mainstream Democrats than Republicans. On the conservative side you have people that are openly racist (Trump for one was found by a court to be racist, white supremacists are a part of the right wing) and sexist.

There are some people on the left looking at also correcting injustice of the past (versus the right wing, looking to return to the injustice of the past).

Comment Re:Conditions for experimenting with them (Score 1) 33

That's an idealist but somewhat pointless list of requirements to keep you from ever trying a tool.

Is not actively dishonest, so it contains no programming...

That's pretty much based on the training set and the prompt. You can prompt it to behave how you like

Does not use any datacentres forced on communities

Not really possible to know where a model was trained so an easy excuse to ignore it.

Is not trained on material without the consent of the people who made that material.

Another impossible requirement. All models will include material from public domain or licensing deals that won't explicitly include the people who made the material

Is not being offered on a "cheap now, expensive later" model.

At least this one is somewhat possible. Obviously it excludes all commercial models because it requires you to know the future, but at least local models fit the requirement.

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