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Web developer, former journalist, alt comics fan, amateur microbiology enthusiast. All in on the fediverse.

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yelling at clouds, syllabus edition.
Screenshot from syllabus, reading: "If you went to a gym, and there was a machine that lifted weights up and down for you, could you say that you’ve had a work-out, if the machine moved the weights around? Because isn’t that the point of a gym: moving weights from A to B? So a machine would be more efficient, and better at it? That sound you hear is of a point being missed. The correct answer is, ’no’. The correct answer is, we lift the weights so that our muscles undergo the process of strengthening, conditioning, developing. In the same way, the use of any generative AI system to create written work in this class is a pointless stupid thing to do. In the same way having a machine lift weights for you misses the point, so too does having a machine generate statistical chains of plausible bullshit. You’re in university to develop your mind, not to have a stack of papers on your desk. Process Is The Point You lift weights so that your body undergoes the process. The process is the point. You write to train your mind to think, to put your mind through a process. The point was never to have x number of things-written. Yet, many people seem to treat university as the accumulation of papers in exchange for a piece of paper. That is profoundly sad."
June 10, 2025 at 9:28 PM