Post #2493655
2026-05-13 16:24 UTC
Replies (5)
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@samebchase@fantastic.earth 2026-05-14 10:24
@meena@cathode.church Wow.
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@gomli@piaille.fr 2026-05-14 10:47
@meena@cathode.church "I think that even if one could show that the introduction of the computer into schools actually effected an improvement, say for example in reading scores, even if one could show that, the question, "Why can't Johnny read?" must still be asked. There is a very good reason that questions of that kind are uncomfortable. When we ask this question, we may discover that Johnny is hungry when he comes to school, or that Johnny comes from a milieu in which reading is irrelevant to concrete problems or survival on the street -- that is, there is no chance to read, it is a violent milieu, and so on."
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@gomli@piaille.fr 2026-05-14 12:40
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social @meena@cathode.church Thank you, very interesting :) I would also add that in addition to this visions, we are faced today with a social and ethical problem which did not exist in the field of AI at that time, it is colonial exploitation of the global South or on poor minorities in the West to make this technology work. We already have the populations sacrificed to extract rare earths, whether through their work, the poisoning of their living environments or the wars for control of these resources. This is of course, not a problem that only concerns the AI llm but it restarts the race for power, therefore for extraction.
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@teledyn@mstdn.ca 2026-05-14 19:29
@meena@cathode.church As one whose 50 years of it ended only recently, my main regret is not having chosen a more honest vocation, say, perhaps in used-car sales, or pimping. The fun stopped around the Y2K dot-bomb, with the occasional flicker of hope here and there until maybe 2020 when the oligarchs won. That WFH 'failed' was a major clue.
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@donelias@mastodon.cr 2026-05-15 03:17
@meena@cathode.church that's amazing, thanks for sharing