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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humansābut schools will still exist ābecause you still need childcareā
Itās wild for the CEO of an edutainment company to have this much disdain for for teachers.
Oh god, so many horror quotes in there.
ā¦and thatās why I try to avoid using smartphone apps as much as possible.
How about common senseā¦
Ugh. So terrible. Techās obsession with āscalingā is one of the worst things about tech.
No, it cannot. Itās a statistical model, it cannot give attention to anything or anyone, what are you talking about.
Did this person ever have a good teacher in their life
Aaaarrgh. Techās obsession with A/B testing is another one of the worst things about tech.
Ok I stop here now, thereās more, almost every paragraph contains something horrible.
Yeah that jumped out to me. Like human teaching has scaled fine to billions of people. It certainly has a better track record than Duolingo which provides meh study material and leads to ahem mixed learning outcomes despite being around for over a decade.
Of course thereās the subtext of ābut also weāll be able to put all those obsolete teachers out of business and make tons of money!ā
Being in tech I definitely see misuse of A/B testing sometimes. Sometimes a team will ignore common sense entirely but come up with metrics that measure something irrelevant. The metrics are, intentionally or not, gamed to tell them what they want to hear. They then run the (useless) numbers and use that to justify why their change was good, even in the face of intense user backlash.
One particular example that just came to mind: someone made a bad change, and lots of people complained. Eventually the complaints started to peter out. Then they claimed āsee! people just had to get used to it!ā (versus the rather more obvious possibility that nobody bothered to complain more than once).
Not really. If schools arenāt spending as much on teachers, they have more budget to spend on his slop. This way, he has a narrative for hitting the doubtlessly ridiculous future growth projections someone in his position is compelled to peddle.