Colleges haven’t been training people how to read for centuries; it has been assumed that people entering college could read and write with a pen for a long time and college shifted with it.

And the collegiate system wasn’t based on Confucian teaching styles.

Yeah, but part of it is because students complained, the current ranking of universities don’t include quality of undergraduate education, and the public didn’t really understand what college was for when providing funding with strings attached.

You can argue that primary and secondary school was about workforce productivity, but college was designed for leadership training.

The point of an undergraduate degree isn’t knowledge; knowledge is only the first level in Bloom’s Taxonomy, a set of six levels of how people understand different topics.

The problem with the use of AI in college is that students are supposed to get to the application point in undergrad and that college is supposed to provide that practice. Using AI in college is like using a machine to lift weights. Sure, the weights are moved, but it doesn’t benefit the person who needed the exercise.

They are trying a razor and razorblade model. Build out a system for free/cheap to get vendor lock-in and charge through the nose on maintenance while trying to keep out any competition.

Worse, there is likely value in getting access to that data and they likely built the system to make it hard to audit access on their end.

I’m not the person who posted it, I’m just explaining the rational as requested.

Most animals raised for meat have been undergone breeding by humans to increase desirable traits at the expense of survivability in nature. Those animals are unlikely to survive in nature.

Even if they could, it would wreck local ecosystems if all meat livestock was freed to nature.

I wouldn’t dare.

Part of the issue with off-shoring was that a lot of the work was contracted to different companies. Nowadays, large companies own the satellite offices so they have better control over the work.

I don’t think it is just failing companies that are doing this.

COVID fundamentally broke the relationship of cost of living to the salary of certain jobs. You don’t need to pay salaries for people to live in Silicon Valley or Seattle if everyone in the department is full remote. So, if you are going to keep the job as full remote, you can base the salary on a more average cost of living and cut wages. You can use AI as an excuse for senior staff layoffs for investors, then quietly hire workers in more parts of the world with lower salaries.

Yeah, but the federation as a whole will defederate from instances outside of a minimal acceptable set of politics.

Vulcans have the belief in Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations and the Federation as a whole is typically portrayed as finding strength in diversity.

Through DS9, we saw several officers in Starfleet who were either the first of their species or at least very rare. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was some weight given to diversity in the same way a lot of private colleges do.

Yeah, but those tools should be built into Lemmy and they aren’t. Even something as basic as mod seniority based on something other than how long someone has been a mod should have been corrected.

Good mods and admins are able to do good work despite the tools provided, not with the tools provided.

I’m not surprised. Lemmy has been sold as a Reddit where people can be in more control than they could be on Reddit. It turns out you only get that control if you’re an admin.

But the decision to defederate or allow a mod to use AI is at the admin level, not the user level.

The user threat to leave isn’t worth that much.

The use of AI for moderation isn’t the choice of users, but moderators and admins.

As far as I recall, the reasons for not being able to beam up the crew would be similar to not being able to retrieve a shuttle.

You also had the issue where the expense of having a shuttle on set and adding the VFX would have been higher than transporting the crew, so the writers kept with transporting.

Yeah. We already see in American universities that a lot of universities split up their student bodies, with collegiate honors programs on one end and pre-freshmen summer courses for first generation students from marginal high schools.

If we compare Wesley to Nog, I wouldn’t be surprised if Nog had to take remedial classes in Starfleet Academy, not because he is stupid but because his level of formal education was far below Wesley’s.

Some people like the taste. A lot of their use in drinks makes the drink have a great depth to taste.

A lot of the value in alcohol is in the flavorings, not the ethanol.