That's the problem. They can be obsequious and sycophantic, even when interlocuting with someone contemplating violence or suicide.

So do I. But it makes sense to blame the company that created the technology.

*head bangs in approval*

The teachers don't want to eliminate AI. They just want it curtailed until after 2nd grade. I think the teachers have many of the same opinions you have about AI. They may just differ with you on timing.

And I think it's a false dichotomy to frame the issue as achieving optimal education vs. preserving teacher-jobs, pick only one. Arguably you can and should do both. Humans will always need to learn from other humans in order to function in human society. No doubt AI can help though.

I have no doubt we all had one or two bad teachers, like the one you described. But they were the minority, and generally didn't last in the profession.

Almost all of the teachers I had enjoyed seeing the light of understanding turn on in their students' minds. I went on to do some teaching when I was in grad school and as a post-doc. I enjoyed seeing that light turn on also. It's very rewarding.

I'm not so cynical as that. I think the teachers (and their union) don't want AI as a dominant source of information in the classroom until later, when it's more age-appropriate. Until then, students need to follow lessons to develop basic reading, arithmetic, science, music, art, phys ed, and socialization. AI can become a tool for research later on, but until then it can be a distraction in the classroom.

Since at least the 1960s, there has been an interest in teaching children to program. Consider, for example, the Logo Programming Language. Yeah, a school district would have needed a PDP-1 to run it, but the point is that people were thinking of teaching kids to code even back then.

There's no harm in starting early. We often start teaching children how to play musical instruments from an early age. Who knows where the next coding-version of Mozart might be, unless you give him/herself a chance to be revealed?

Nope, human. My experience has been that LLMs write better than that. Much better. And LLMs tend not to add gratuitous curses and mockery-inspired names for things.

Oh, forgot to link the dry density for you: here you go. 341kcal/100g. Aka 3,41kcal/g.

Which, like I said, should be obvious, since they're almost entirely carbs (~4kcal/g) and protein (~4kcal/g), and they're, as noted, dry (12-16% moisture). It would be quite the trick indeed to get something that is dry and and is almost entirely comprised of things that are 4kcal/g to be 1,38kcal/g! ;)

Just in case you need help:

Your calculation: 195g (dry weight) × 1.38 kcal/g = 269 calories per pound of cooked beans.
Correction: Because you used 1.38 kcal/g (the cooked density) as if it were the dry density, you essentially diluted the calories twice.
The Actual Math: 195g of dry beans * 3.4 kcal/g (actual dry density) = 663 kcal.

When those 195g of dry beans absorb water to weigh 454g (1 pound), they still contain those same 663 calories (since water has zero calories).

Canned beans are ALREADY COOKED. *facepalm*. You can eat them straight out of the can.

which is waaaay more than I would want to eat at a sitting.

I can't think of a single ingredient - any ingredient - that I would want to eat exclusively as my diet, so this is a really stupid argument.

In general, "damping pleasure" is not most people's experience with GLP-1 agonists. What it does is more like separate pleasurable experiences from having an urgent need to continue doing them.

I'd believe the Iceland numbers. I had a doctor once who wanted to get me on antidepressants, and got mad when I didn't want to, and completely ignored my pleadings of "But I'm not depressed", "I enjoy life", "I'm probably the least depressed person you'll meet", etc. He just really liked his patients to be on it. The Icelandic medical system is very into anything that "medicates symptoms" rather than treating diseases. For example, during COVID, it was essentially impossible to get drugs like paxlovid, but they made parkodín (tylenol with codeine) over-the-counter.

In most modern societies medication is usually a last resort.

I'm going to take a wager that if I were to open your medicine cabinet right now, there would be painkillers in it, which you take as will when you get headaches, body aches, etc.

Yes, different people have different baseline hunger levels. This is well accepted in the scientific community.

Please read: Cooked bean variety.

The "beans in your pantry" data you're looking at are probably per serving. Here, let me grab the beans in *my* pantry. Roland BLACK BEANS Habichuelas Negras Supreme Calidad. Net weight 15.5 OZ / 439g. Serving size: 130g. Calories per serving: 180.

There's 453,6 grams per pound, so that's 0,968 pounds. 439/130 = 3,15 servings, times 180 calories = 567. In 0,968 pounds, that's 586 calories.

Or look online. "172 grams of black beans (cooked, boiled, unsalted) contains 227 Calories." Do the math.

I'm not sure exactly how you expect something that is 70% carbs (of which are 36% fibre) and 26% protein to be low-cal. Do you think it has the moisture content of celery or something?

I am not a bot. I meant what I wrote sincerely, without a desire to display satire.

And I'm almost always on your side, rsilvergun. Not this time, apparently.

Even one's friends disagee with one sometimes. Nothing to be embarrassed about.