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Comment 5D Stupid (Score 3, Interesting) 65

I had no idea that stupid and self-harming economic policies could be so cleverly and thoroughly executed. My hats off to the Orange Turd.

I'm just kidding. One only needs to look to the 1920s to see similar idiocy. The Atlantic has an article about it today: https://www.theatlantic.com/bo...

If you can't deal with the paywall, go to archive.is.

Comment Re:As a teacher (Score 1) 50

I imagine teachers using AI for that task are just doing so to meet the demands of stupid, clueless administrators who micromanage their teachers until they leave the career. If I had somebody micromanaging me like that, I'd use ChatGPT to fake up a bunch of shitty lessons, and I'd not use a single one of them. The admin wouldn't probably care, as they would not do anything but a cursory review of the lessons anyway, as it's all about CYA.

Comment A better search engine, or... (Score 1) 33

That he didn't bother to search, or...

The volume of garbage that AI spews out has made traditional search engines less useful, or...

The people who actually solved the problems did not bother to contact the guy who tracks them.

Quite possibly all these "or" should be replaces with "and".

Comment Re:As a teacher (Score 1) 50

If I teach the same lesson three times in a week, it is somewhat different three times as I continuously revise and improve. I teach the same core curriculum year after year, but I rewrite the lessons from scratch year after year, only copying over some early "this is how we do class" notes, that I also revise every year. Many teachers just change the dates on their schedules and do it all the same, of course. They generally suck.

Comment Do you even EV, bruh? (Score 1) 112

I've had two 80-mile-range EVs, three with ranges over 200 miles, and one that supposedly could do 300 miles (a Tesla - it couldn't unless I drove slowly). I know EVs. We now have two that get to 60 in the low-3-second range

I never bought a light hybrid. Yes, they can regenerate power while slowing down, and yes, they are more efficient in every way. However, comparative compact cars can perform almost as well for less total cost to own. When faced between a 35 mpg Scion xA and a 45mpg Prius, it was easy to take the Scion. We'd have saved maybe $200 a year or gas with the Prius, maybe. Over the five years we owned the car, we'd never have made that money back, even after a higher resale value.

I never bought a plug-in hybrid either, and we never will. Yes, they're better than EVs for long car trips, which we almost never take. They're great for short hops around town, which we often take. They largely perform worse than and cost about the same as similar pure EVs. Even if you plug in every day, you still have to go to a gas station now and then, and you still have to get oil changes now and then. PITA. If I want a plug-in hybrid that accelerates as fast as my EVs in real world situations, I'm looking at 100k+ Porsche, BMW, or Mercedes. Even then, they respond slower to the gas pedal than my 80k BMW and 50k Volvo.

Comment To sum it up (Score 3, Insightful) 91

Wikipedia has a significant problem with biases. So does anything written by anybody or anything. I have not found the biases to be egregiously bad. Far from it. They seem pretty predictable.
Wikipedia is, in general, accurate on the facts, as long as the topic is not controversial and political.

AI summaries are, in general, of questionable accuracy. I trust them to give me links to sources that might be valuable, and that is it.
AI summaries have significant bias problems. They reflect the biases of the sources they stole from, often "hallucinate" new biases and, of course, provide new information that is utterly false but stated with absolute certainty.

Wikipedia is probably well on its way down a long descent into oblivion, and the should be worried, along with every other provider of content on the internet and in the world. The thieves are here, and they run the government.

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