Christ, the replies to Starfish in there get really vile really fast.

They yearn for the Red-Brown alliance based on the synthesis of “I hate my mom”

we all have to collectively pretend that many pre-musk tastemakers weren't toxic, that complete nobodies weren't being brigaded over 'waffles' like stuff, and the trash fire on our 'side' was so bad that it made the other side just blend into the landscape

Buddy sending his platoon unsupported into the heart of the Haqqani Network where Red Unit guys and AQ trainers with off the shelf NODs and genuinely pretty good small unit tactics training are waiting for him would make Red Wings look like a fucking masterstroke.

Like AI itself aside, a moment that makes you realize you are talking to someone who is broadly incapable of understanding, at a fundamental level, the nature of education as a public good and how that works for building a civil culture instead of a machine that only produces laborers, etc.

his conclusion is basically that you cannot give unproctored assessments anymore. anything you're not watching students on is meaningless as a measure of competence

I watched an internal presentation from a CMU professor at work who said that they were getting students who passed every homework assignment and then got 7% (iirc, it was in that range) on the final