Notices by Рождество Bosch (anonymousbosch@poa.st), page 7

@SpurgAnon @Ottovonshitpost @DW2 Most of them are shockingly dumb to the point that it actually scares me: unable to find files not on a desktop, not able to form basic grammatical structures, identify the difference between nouns and verbs, or do 2 digit math problems in their heads. But I have to give props to the ones that are smart: they have access to resources I couldn’t have fathomed in high school ~20 years ago and they got to see the red flags of millennials to avoid them if they have pattern recognition. The ones that don’t fuck around online have talents, skills, and knowledge I’m envious of. The brilliant ones gives me a rare speck of hope.

@Rwoeidk He meant handwritten in class, give the guys on our side some credit.

Effortpoast time as I grade papers before the holidays:

Many of my peers that fall into the minority of “capable” teachers and /ourguys/ that I chat with regularly are growing increasingly concerned about AI-generated papers (see for example: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/12/chatgpt-ai-writing-college-student-essays/672371/). One of my peers even suggested that this will necessitate the return to handwritten or typewritten papers in order to circumvent the ability of students to create plagiarism free, totally unique papers created by a computer prompt. While I would welcome the return of classical writing that this would inevitably produce, I’m not so certain that it’s entirely productive.

1. Non-digital papers are, ironically, harder to detect plagiarism on because I cannot put them through a database and have to depend on my ability to memorize entire passages of academic texts. That would be incredible, but I’ll be the first to admit I’m too retarded for that.
2. The ability for good students to retain the ability to research and write digitally is much more efficient when it comes to finding decent (and rare) sources and fixing errors without starting a whole new damned page (anyone who’s ever used a typewriter can commiserate with me on this).
3. And most importantly, I’m not convinced that AI writing won’t actually be helpful at weeding out shit students. Anyone willing to shell out for a pre-generated paper with zero novel ideas will immediately wash out once they have to produce something of value in oral exams, practical testing (for STEM), or new research methodology in a field that a computer can’t just fart out (because it can only produce from available data). It’s self-correcting, just on a longer time frame than most people are comfortable allowing when it comes to “getting away” with cheating.

I’m curious to see what the ramifications of this will be outside of my own little bubble of “high school and undergrad classes” that I teach, and would love to know what others think of the potential consequences of this.

@CatLord @charliebrownau @balan @dave @AndkonsReich @BowsacNoodle @LorgarAurelian1488 @WhiteDissidentRadio That’s all fine. Refined sugars are awful. But most fruits and veg go out the window if you make a blanket ban on all sugars. Then we lose lactose and sucrose and I like milk and honey.

I think Charlie is a schizophrenic

Based.

@charliebrownau @CatLord @balan @dave @AndkonsReich @BowsacNoodle @LorgarAurelian1488 @WhiteDissidentRadio Banning sugar, carbohydrates, and cooking oils is untenable, as that would eradicate most of the human diet, and wine is necessary for the Eucharist. But, sure I’ll happily let you ban the rest of these as long as we can agree to reinstate blasphemy laws and clamp down on pornography. This is a sensible compromise. 👍