Quote from: Sheilbh on December 31, 2025, 10:29:38 AMTo me the issue isn't that the police can access this via a warrant but that Google (or other search engines) are storing and monetising it in the first place.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on December 31, 2025, 12:00:07 PMI agree. Maybe technology changed what we need to remember, but looking things up has just too much latency for some tasks. For example, pilots have thick books with them on how to deal with emergencies, but some procedures are burned into memory because they need to be done immediately when the situation arises. Also, if you're interested in research, you kind of have to keep many things in memory to connect the dots, knowing that you can look them up is not enough, although AI has changed that somewhat as well.Quote from: Josquius on December 31, 2025, 11:00:27 AMOnce upon a time it made sense. Books were scarce. Remembering had value. Even without AI this hasn't been so for a while.
It would be nice to see a change in how things are done to encourage more application even at undergrad.
Life would be impossible without remembering. We use basic math every day. We use language every day.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on December 31, 2025, 12:00:07 PMLife would be impossible without remembering. We use basic math every day. We use language every day.You also can't apply without knowledge. I'm not a big nutrition or fitness person so only kind of get this but I'm reminded of a barrister's comment that facts are protein, arguments are carbs. His job is literally advocacy but it needs the detail and the facts to do anything.
I don't know and I think it probably depends where you're looking at it from.QuoteWhat an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914! The greater part of the population, it is true, worked hard and lived at a low standard of comfort, yet were, to all appearances, reasonably contented with this lot. But escape was possible, for any man of capacity or character at all exceeding the average, into the middle and upper classes, for whom life offered, at a low cost and with the least trouble, conveniences, comforts, and amenities beyond the compass of the richest and most powerful monarchs of other ages. The inhabitant of London could order by telephone, sipping his morning tea in bed, the various products of the whole earth, in such quantity as he might see fit, and reasonably expect their early delivery upon his doorstep; he could at the same moment and by the same means adventure his wealth in the natural resources and new enterprises of any quarter of the world, and share, without exertion or even trouble, in their prospective fruits and advantages; or he could decide to couple the security of his fortunes with the good faith of the townspeople of any substantial municipality in any continent that fancy or information might recommend. He could secure forthwith, if he wished it, cheap and comfortable means of transit to any country or climate without passport or other formality, could despatch his servant to the neighboring office of a bank for such supply of the precious metals as might seem convenient, and could then proceed abroad to foreign quarters, without knowledge of their religion, language, or customs, bearing coined wealth upon his person, and would consider himself greatly aggrieved and much surprised at the least interference. But, most important of all, he regarded this state of affairs as normal, certain, and permanent, except in the direction of further improvement, and any deviation from it as aberrant, scandalous, and avoidable. The projects and politics of militarism and imperialism, of racial and cultural rivalries, of monopolies, restrictions, and exclusion, which were to play the serpent to this paradise, were little more than the amusements of his daily newspaper, and appeared to exercise almost no influence at all on the ordinary course of social and economic life, the internationalization of which was nearly complete in practice.
Quote from: Josquius on December 31, 2025, 11:01:13 AMQuote from: crazy canuck on December 31, 2025, 10:46:22 AMYes, we are now at or over 1.5C of warming.
We are definitely in the mitigation phase of global warming.
We should be.
The way things are looking at the moment seems far more we are in the "there's nothing we can do anyway. Who cares. We've more important things to do" stage.
Quote from: Josquius on December 31, 2025, 11:00:27 AMOnce upon a time it made sense. Books were scarce. Remembering had value. Even without AI this hasn't been so for a while.
It would be nice to see a change in how things are done to encourage more application even at undergrad.
Quote from: Zoupa on December 31, 2025, 04:02:30 AMI'm not sure why the Department of Labor has someone tweeting out these things in the first place. Is NASA going to start tweeting about manifest destiny next? The Parks Service about the Monroe doctrine?

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