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Adult students who have had real world experience tend to take learning more seriously because they can see a context for it.

Okay, I was generalising from experience; most students I've met lack intrinsic motivation. School systems typically encourage students to depend on extrinsic motivation.

Students need motivation to honestly and openly talk about their doubts or lack of understanding.

Tutors should be able to approximate the ZPD better than any student can. Most students lack intrinsic motivation and it's a tutor's job to help them get started.

Gemini does this weird thing where it tells you you're a genius and then immediately starts correcting everything you said.

That's a great way to get you to listen because your guard is down. Imagine if it told you you were an idiot and then corrected you.

What if you omit states that depend on welfare?

Nah on the receiving end an AI makes a summary of it.

VLC, Blender, OBS Studio, Krita...

They can just get plotters to write their homework for them.

Not being as happy and being unhappy are not the same.

Regardless, you should read Robert Putnam's essay, E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the Twenty-First Century (2007). He makes it clear that social trust goes down because of it.

I can't see how all the mental overhead of modern multicultural living can make you happier either.

Israel would still get the US to attack Iran regardless.

I'm saying that younger generations don't seem to care about realism as much as they care about having fun creating and sharing things with their friends. A large proportion of younger gamers play Roblox and Minecraft. Will they grow up and start playing more GPU-heavy games, or will they continue to play where their friends are?

Being free is exactly what has made those platforms as well as mobile games so popular. Are they going to start paying for subscriptions?

I can already see Nvidia rubbing their hands together in expectation of the massive influx of customers to their cloud gaming platform.

Roblox is not popular because of its graphics. Younger gamers care more about having fun than having an immersive experience.

The paradox of the paradox of tolerance.

Yeah, in the future we will mourn the loss of the art of creating a new JS framework every week.

It's like learning to read English after speaking fluently for a few years. You may only need the letter sounds and then you can guess the rest. Learning Chinese works that way. You learn some basic characters and then you can guess the rest. (Learning to write without a computer is definitely more of a challenge though.)

How can we have a constructive conversation about this, come to a consensus that things are not okay now, and move forward?

How can it be a constructive conversation if you have presupposed the outcome?

"bystanders"

That is how it should be, yes. Do PhDs always meet that standard though? No.

I don't necessarily disagree, but researchers are not required to be good communicators. An academic can lead their field and be a terrible lecturer. A specialist can let a generalist help explain concepts for them.

They should still review the final result though. There is no excuse for not doing that.

What about externalities? What about policy makers going after short-term gains?

Society depends on long-term 'happiness'. Short-term 'happiness' often makes society worse.

Ironically, quite a few Linux-compatible games only work for me in compatibility mode.

Yeah that sounds like wisdom, not intelligence.

There is a big green box at the top of the page explaining that.

Of course there are only two options, low and high.

High-education countries don't look like basket cases.

They are all low fertility countries.

Me too. I guess a majority of people don't have the patience to work around counterintuitive things nor do they want to take measures to avoid bugs. On the other hand, Blender and Krita seem to give UX a higher priority, so they're more likely to catch on.

LibreOffice, GIMP, FreeCAD and Inkscape all have their quirks (and bugs), but they're probably seen as features by their core users so they won't change.