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  • Libra00@lemmy.mltoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Is censorship ok if the person you're censoring is wrong?English
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    2 days ago

    What is with these vague, open-ended questions with no effort put in to try to provide any detail or literally anything to engage with?

    Now instead of answering your question I have to ask a bunch of questions myself:

    • How, exactly, are they wrong?
      • Are they merely incorrect?
      • Are they actively spreading disinformation?
    • Is their speech causing harm? If so what kind?
      • Is it direct and measurable like hate-speech or incitements to violence?
      • Or is it something vague and nebulous like ‘decadence’ or ‘societal harm’?
    • Who decided that they are wrong?
      • Experts?
      • Moderation teams?
      • Bureaucrats?
    • And most importantly, who is doing the censoring?
      • In what form?
      • With what authority?
      • In what medium?
      • For what purpose (actual, not stated)?

    Context matters, friend. Please provide some.

  • Libra00@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.world•AI is rotting your brain and making you stupidEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Replace ‘stop remembering things’ with ‘remember fewer things’ at your own leisure if it makes you happy, I’m exaggerating slightly to make a point.

    My argument is not that we will stop practising critical thinking altogether, but that we will not need to practise it as often.

    And mine is that as far as I know we have no evidence (or at least nothing more than anecdotal evidence at best) for that because society has only gotten more complex, not less, and requires more thought, memory, etc to navigate it. Now instead of remembering which cow was sick last week and which field I’m going to plant tomorrow I have to remember shit like how to navigate a city that’s larger than the range in which most people traveled their entire lives, I have to figure out what this weird error my PC just threw means, I have to calculate the risk-vs-reward of trying to buy a house now or renting for a year to save up for a better down payment and improve my credit, etc. These are just examples, pick your own if you don’t like them.

    Less practise always makes you worse at something. I do not need evidence for that as it is obvious.

    Now who’s being reductive? I’m not asking for evidence that less practice makes you worse at something, I’m asking for evidence that labor-saving devices result in people doing less labor (mental or otherwise), because I think that’s a lot less obvious.

    I have seen how today’s students are using it instead of using their brains

    This is a bad example because learning is a different matter. People using it instead of learning will not learn the subject matter as well as those who don’t, obviously. But it’s a lot less obvious in other fields/adult life. Will I be less good at code because I use an LLM to generate some now and then? Probably not, both because I’ve been coding off and on for 30 years, but also because my time instead is spent on tackling the thornier problems that AI can’t do or has difficulty with, managing large projects because AI has a limited memory window, etc.

    We teach critical thinking in schools for a reason, because it’s something that does not always come naturally, and these students are getting AI to do the work for them instead of learning how to think.

    That’s debatable, though I guess it depends on where you’re from and what the schools are like there. They certainly didn’t teach critical thinking when I was in (US public) school, I had to figure that shit out largely on my own. But that’s beside the point. Shortcutting learning is bad, I agree. Shortcutting work is a lot more nebulous and uncertain in the absence of that evidence I keep asking for.