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@CalumDouglas1 You can get an HP-15C app from Apple. They certify the algorithms are true to the original code: https://t.co/MXfTA6tRsc

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Some people have rightly asked, if AI is so bad, whats the actual EVIDENCE for this ? Aside from a sort of "generalised armageddon panic".

The negatives I think are strongly amplified in the young, because they need to learn, its here that the harm will manifest most strongly.

One example of this (which is nothing to do with AI specifically) was this 1990 paper from the University of Rochester.

"Self-Determination Theory and the Facilitation of Intrinsic Motivation, Social Development, and Well-Being"

https://t.co/y0lsgqwP5I

Essentially this is about a field of theory for learning and development called Self Determination Theory.

"Perhaps no single phenomenon reflects the positive potential of human nature as much as intrinsic motivation, the inherent tendency to seek out novelty and challenges, to extend and exercise one's capacities, to explore, and to learn. Developmentalists acknowledge that from the time of birth, children, in their healthiest states, are active, inquisitive, curious, and playful, even in the absence of specific reward"

This is all about how motivation can cause the "light switching on" behaviour in someone, many people experience this (I certainly have) where a person who is at first listless and drifting, can appear to suddenly "click" and become highly capable and focused.

Parts of this can ONLY come about when a person HAS to focus and suceed on some task, through their own faculties. In those who do this of their own volition, the effects are most pronounced:

"Comparisons between people whose motivation is authentic (literally, self-authored or endorsed) and those who are merely externally controlled for an action typically reveal that the former, relative to the latter, have more interest, excitement, and confidence, which in turn is manifest both as enhanced performance, persistence, and creativity"

If children, or just anyone developing, can simply type whatever they want into an AI chatwindow, or give it any task they please, the intrinsic motivation at the code of Self Determination is broken, because the child has NO motivation to learn or understand anything fully in its full nature, (ironically, to "Grok" it). Since any task can simply be offloaded onto an entity at the other end of a phone or keyboard.

This will, I think, have an absolutely catastrophic impact on the motivation and learning of young people, and will, if left to the unchecked plans of those with money in the game, be left listless, empty and demotivated.

Some idiotic commentators who clearly dont understand it, say "everyone said this when pocket calculators arrived".

This is clearly nonsense since the calculator cannot "do" any task you ask it, nor will it pretend it knows the answer, it can only simplify automated numerical actions.

But when the pocket calculator, has enough power and instead of being able to tell you that the square root of 144 is 12 (which anyone who remembers their tables from school ought to remember anyway, so perhaps a poor example), can be asked "write a paper for me on Henry VIII" without you even having to go to a library or even know anything about him at all, we have a problem.

Its not just about cheating in tests, its that if you dont TAKE the test, millions of young people`s brains will literally remain dormant and may NEVER develop into bright lights.

Why would a child be inquisitive when ALL answers simply require asking the computer, what will happen is that what the paper calls "integrated regulation" (described below) may simply not happen.

"Finally, the most autonomous form of extrinsic motivation is integrated regulation. Integration occurs when identified regulations are fully assimilated to the self, which means they have been evaluated and brought into congruence with one's other values and needs. Actions characterized by integrated motivation share many qualities with intrinsic motivation, although they are still considered extrinsic because they are done to attain separable outcomes rather than for their inherent enjoyment. In some studies, identified, integrated, and intrinsic forms of regulation have been combined to form an autonomous motivation composite."

We cant "delete" AI, it was probably inevitable as soon as the transistor was created, but lets not imagine this will be "intrinsically" a force for growth.

Human learning is under tremendous threat if this is not understood.

What is staggering is how few people read ANYTHING about how humans learn, and how vast amounts of money is ploughed into AI, when we have not even made the most basic attempts to encourage OUR intelligence (OI).

People need to stop thinking about this as a nice tool to help a software engineer get more code out the door, and realise the immense implications for the effects this will have on how children develop.

The three pillars of Self Determination Theory are:

1) autonomy
2) competence
3) relatedness

With widespread AI, how will any child develop competence when they can simply ask AI?

How will any child develope relatedness when there is no connection between what the CHILD knows and the development of the world and people around them, and how can a young person become autonomous, when they have not developed wide-ranging competence.

With some very strict controls, its possible that AI might act as a useful tool to facilitate access to curated information, but this does not appear to be what is being planned at this time.

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@Stevkostev There are few things in life as purely enjoyable as HS football

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@ClimbingCoachX It was WAAAAAYYYY better than the reaction (or lack thereof) when one busted out a new pair of painters pants

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@MrGo30 That Penn State line…🤣🤣🤣

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@modernhistory

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@1000yearhouse Ironic, because “Closer To The Heart” was written by non-member Peter Talbot, a friend of Neil Peart. Nonetheless “Closer” is a timeless song (& Rush a timeless band) for sure!

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@NCregeen @FreddyLA7 Sweet baby 10lb Jesus, this year Ole Miss - LSU is gonna be LIT! After Lane Kiffin left the way he did…WHEEEEUH

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@japan_nobunaga If I help you, I feel good. And that feeling is not for sale

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@japan_nobunaga This one hit hard. Fred Symonds & Vaughn Blalock - apart from my father - are the men who made me

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@ClimbingCoachX I highly recommend the route, but know that there’s ground fall potential until you clip the 3rd bolt a loooooonnnngggg way up. It’s not called Run For Your Life for nothing!

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@ClimbingCoachX I’m pretty sure I spent the better part of 90 minutes thinking my way through Run For Your Life at J-Tree. My belayer was so unbelievably bored! Then she followed, & a good friend after her, and both were astounded I was able to lead it. Said it was a 10b for 11+ leaders

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@SamaHoole Link to Yerushalmy & Hilleboe’s article: https://t.co/fRY2qMpMIm

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@Empty_America Exactly. I’d spend 12 hours in the desert in a t-shirt that started blue & ended the day white, & never felt even a little bit damp

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@Empty_America My biggest mistake was selling a jeep with no AC within 2 months of moving there. After about 18 months, I really missed that jeep

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@Empty_America After living (and rock climbing) in Las Vegas for a year, I didn’t bother putting on shorts until 100*. I found I could go running until it was 104*, and biking until 112*. Anything hotter & I stayed inside

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@CognitiveMetric @Steve_Sailer A kid at my high school got an 800 math & 790 verbal in 1983. And he knew which question he missed

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@hallegilb @iowahawkblog I’ve got a kajillion jars of these, mostly collected by my uncle

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@EODHappyCaptain Once upon a time I had an “I love me” wall, but that went away upon retirement. Now it’s just a shadow box in an obscure corner of my den. But I’ve still got all the old plaques & awards stashed throughout the house

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@Stevkostev “Never let the facts get in the way of a good story” says legendary climber & author John Long. At this point in life, I’ve got at least a dozen fabricated memories