Jeremy Hunsinger

finally....

this is the way, but instead of doing it alone do it with no more than two other folks.

#sts www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope... submit to 159 the normal violences and vices of data

booking brewery tours... so far Cantillon, which is a fave,de Halve Man, and because they are undergrads... Camden Town as they specialize in lager, the other one we are doing is brussels beer project, and we might do another in london

heh... come to the land of of the great white north and random extra vowels.

as soon as they named it homeland... it was fascist...

just business as usual

and maybe not just explain but try to translate it into anything they might care about.... hah.

there is a mantra that i try to remember on this and spread to other educators, 'our students are not like us', they don't necessarily love learning, love knowing how, love thinking, etc. etc. it is a lesson i re-learn far too often.

I once had tempeh claiming to be bacon... at least you didn't have that...

It was a machine that reproduced knowledge and practice as humans do, but it doesn't follow popularity and commonness. without the guarantee of either real opinion, or real knowledge, those people using LLMs are just increasingly going to generate nonsense.

not everyone is competent enough to self-teach either, i learned the same things you did, minus 3d printing because I was not interested in that specifically, but I teach a course on making... and it is rare to see anything novel or even innovative, many just reproduce, and LLM would be fine if it

precisely, they don't have the skills to even begin.

They aren't giving you the real things, just representational abstractions which have greater and lesser relations to the real things. (I see this when students use LLM's and haven't actually read the real materials)... so ... anyway, user beware, but really polis beware.

They don't understand much of anything and likely never will, so to give them a tool that purports to represent some system that will tell them things is basically just giving them a tool they will use, but not know. for LLMS that is doubly bad because they are only approximations of likely things.

i teach many things about technology and I have for years. Ed's insights are similarly applicable to cars, machine guns, butter knives, encyclopedias, dictionaries, etc. etc. We don't teach people to use or understand technologies well in a general way be they simple like a butter knife or not.

if he is no longer a prince, can they be princesses?

technology, insofar as it is ecological, has ecological effects on our future, and those are indeterminate. Oil industries might destroy our current nature, or something else may happen. I tend to try to think critique requires overdeterminism and hope requires underdetermination. Does that help

@drhillarypimlott.bsky.social the book i picked up was Joyful Militancy