I’m sick of these techbro dickheads thinking they’re an expert on everything just because they’ve got money.
So many rich psychopaths in capitalist societies.
The system is designed to make psychopaths successful and powerful.
I learn better with humans…this is billionaire excrement
Worst part is even after this idiot destroys his own company, he can just claim he was responsible for the highest ever peak stock share price (before he caused the decline).
I’m so close to letting my streak die because of this dude. Fuck him.
My library (and check yours, too!) has free access to Mango Languages, and what I have tried there has been nice. But they don’t guilt trip you into doing lessons so you have to keep on top of it yourself.
Mango Languages doesn’t have Esperanto.
I’ve paid for the year, so I’ll do my damnedest to run up their gippity bill.
I ended my streak and uninstalled a while ago. It went downhill when they got rid of the discussion section for the exercises. Add to that stupid sentences I most likely wouldn’t say in the real world .
What a cunt
ai can teach, and cheaper than humans, but I doubt its better than most of us
I absolutely cannot wait for kids to learn about “vegetative electron microscopy”
AI absolutely cannot replace teachers.
Augment possibly but replace? No.
By augment I mean provide some help at the direction of the teacher.
https://retractionwatch.com/2025/02/10/vegetative-electron-microscopy-fingerprint-paper-mill/
So he’s an ass.
When someone has a vested interest in the answer to a given question they are no longer a reliable source. We collectively need to stop giving a shit about celebrities and capitalists opinions.
Yeah, they already said “CEO”.
That’s pretty hilarious considering I’ve been using Duolingo (cracked apks) for years and these last couple of weeks the sentences it’s been giving me are insane and weird, stupidly awkward things that no one would ever say IRL.
Airlearn isn’t quite there as far as speech recognition but the lessons are a lot more natural and it actually tells you why and explains different parts of the culture around the language and why an idea might be expressed a certain way rather than how we’re used to in English. An LLM could never.
Worse than they used to be?
By a long shot. The sentences have been absolutely unhinged the last couple of weeks, and full of words I haven’t learned on top of that.
shut up dude your AI can’t even conjugate italian are verbs properly
Current LLMs aren’t better teachers.
They might be in the future. But definitely not now.
Depends on the teacher and what they’re teaching.
If you’re just going to get run through a standard curriculum then maybe an AI that optimises towards the individual is better.
Puts his children in private school without computers.
Too much hallucinations in AI, We don’t want to learn the wrong things.
Amazing how this guy has no idea that schools are just as much about socializing and learning to deal with other people and situations you’ll be in for the rest of your life. That’s not “child care,” it’s a structured environment where the main goal is learning and the real benefits are everything else on the fringes.
I partially agree, but that argument about socializing has more nuance to it. At least in my experience, such socializing did not happen in schools, but instead in coffee shops (again, my experience may be different from everyone else’s), where I had meaningful debates with adults. Instead, I actively avoided conversations with my peers, particularly because I had nothing in common with them.
Instead, I actively avoided conversations with my peers, particularly because I had nothing in common with them.
Looking at your own social interactions with others, do you now consider yourself to be socially well adjusted? Was the “debating child in a coffee shop” method actually useful at developing the social skills that are useful in adulthood?
I have some doubts.
Yeah, it’s different for everyone.
My “counterfactual” is knowing a lot of kids that were home schooled. They were just young weird adults that didn’t thrive in most circumstances. There’s a reason why even rural agrarian societies found value is putting kids together.
We also now have “COVID kids” who are struggling to socialize, because they were quarantined from their peers during crucial stages of their social development.
