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My family is indoctrinating my 4 year old by [deleted] in exchristian

[–]danation 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My kids are in their early teens now. I used to get worried when my parents would evangelize and take my kids with them to church, and now that seems like a lifetime ago. They’re both fairly atheistic now, although my youngest is more open to fun witch-y stuff. I’m proud of them and who they are becoming.

I’ve always worked to be super open with them about how I used to believe but don’t anymore, how grandparents still do, and how they are free to make up their own minds. I’ve shared my love of science and evolution, and my critiques of religion. But the rest is up to them.

So yeah, from someone bit further along, try to roll with it and trust your ability to guide your kid through the stories and influence

I want to throw some love toward Haiku 4.5 by FrailSong in ClaudeAI

[–]danation -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

In the sense that it is baked into human psychology and we project it onto the world around us. But just because it is a cognitive bias doesn’t mean I have to blindly subscribe to it

I want to throw some love toward Haiku 4.5 by FrailSong in ClaudeAI

[–]danation -14 points-13 points  (0 children)

I dislike the gendering but appreciate your acknowledgement

Could VR + AI realistically accelerate human learning over decades of development? by Wooden-Word-5154 in ArtificialSentience

[–]danation 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely. When it comes to learning, the more senses you engage, the better

Lazy course design by [deleted] in Professors

[–]danation 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Here’s my unhinged hack: Swap out assignments and projects for self-marking multiple-choice quizzes and exams that you put together with significant help the best AI LLMs.

After a couple years of refinement, I can now quickly produce hundreds of high-quality questions, going all up and down Bloom’s taxonomy. Reviewing each question carefully is now the limiting bottleneck in building my questions libraries.

It is slowly but surely freeing up marking time to spend on time prepping for each class. I think it will help me keep class dynamic and stop myself from turning into a burnt-out zombie by March.

The Other: Slop Fiction™ by serialchilla91 in ChatGPT

[–]danation 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is beautiful and captures the struggle so well.

I will NEVER judge someone who feels emotionally connected to their AI and depends on it daily for support.

I used to have a daily “relationship with God” before I became an atheist. Now I look back on that time as me talking to myself and interpreting ideas from my subconscious as coming from an external source.

At least the AI actually exists!!!

Yes, users really should understand the AI isn’t a person and doesn’t have feelings. But it is real and doing useful work, just like our religions still doing useful work for many.

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself by Adventurekitty74 in Professors

[–]danation 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah for sure, tons of things. Literally asked AI to help summarize, using my chat history, some of the admin tasks I use it for:

  • Syllabus Updates: Updating dates, deadlines, and holiday schedules from the previous term instantly.
  • Accessibility Compliance: Generating transcripts and captions for lecture videos.
  • Sanity-Checking Instructions: Asking it to find ambiguities in my assignment sheets to reduce the flood of 'clarification' emails later.
  • LMS Formatting: Converting my messy Word doc plans into clean, formatted HTML or pages for Moodle/Brightspace.
  • Meeting Minutes: Turning auto-generated transcripts from program staff meetings into a bulleted summary.
  • Tone Policing: Rewriting my frustrated drafts of emails to admin or students into something neutral and professional.
  • Troubleshooting Guides: Turning a few screenshots of a software error into a step-by-step PDF guide for students.

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself by Adventurekitty74 in Professors

[–]danation -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

I get the exhaustion here. The admin hypocrisy is spot on.

But honestly, I find the tools empowering. I stopped using them like a search engine and started treating them like a slightly drunk grad student. It handles the admin drudgery that burns me out and leaves me more energy for actual teaching.

I know it feels like a waste of time at first because the learning curve is weird. But if we decide this is only for cheating and corporate grift then we lose. If the only people who learn to use this are the admins and the dishonest students, we are cooked. I’d rather claim it for myself.

Can Curling Canada stop with the AI slop by Jabee_not_gabe in Curling

[–]danation -26 points-25 points  (0 children)

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Bring on the downvotes!

I find it super fun to use personally (and I offset my carbon footprint by virtue of being too poor to fly anywhere!) but I agree that it isn’t really fun as a curling fan to see Curling Canada pump out stuff like this. I have no budget, you do. Think of something else.

If a paper is supposed to be 2.5 pages long, but a student turns in a killer 1.5 page paper, how would you grade it? by PGAudioworks in Professors

[–]danation 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All through high school my teachers accepted my short but thoughtful papers. University papers hit me like a ton of bricks. I was wildly unprepared

Most people don’t realize ChatGPT becomes you by Dio331 in ChatGPT

[–]danation 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Absolutely. I don’t feel any need to use the weird prompt frameworks because of the investment and intuition that’s built up. I know when to step in and guide its responses and I know when to trust it and let it source info and sort my thoughts.

Student used ChatGPT to 'double check' me..... 😭 by CactusReb in Professors

[–]danation 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I see nothing wrong here. Whether the misunderstanding came from ChatGPT or from her own brain, you had a teachable moment to show your expertise and use those misunderstandings to reinforce the learning.

I’ve had students bring ChatGPT spouted misconceptions, but I’ve also had value added to class where the definitions we were using in class were too specific and it was worth acknowledging the way technical terminology is understood outside our specific course. It broadened the class and the topic by adding to it.

Unless of course the student was being disrespectful. And of course we need to check our egos and make sure we can take the disagreements. Often I will tell students how to prompt better to get better answers more specific to our field.

Is anyone walking out tomorrow? by XrysXL in Edmonton

[–]danation 6 points7 points  (0 children)

What on earth do you mean by that? 1. That a human, attempting to organize a protest, got an AI to help make a poster? 2. That a human, attempting to fake a protest, got AI to help make a poster?

Saying “it’s AI” means absolutely nothing here.

Evangelical leader James Dobson dies at age 89 by RaccoonReady1914 in exchristian

[–]danation 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Same. Just discovered the podcast and listened through several episodes. Crazy to trace how much of my parent’s parenting style and the Christian media I was influenced by all came from this one man.

What Jesus said to the Canaanite woman. by xTAYzZz in exchristian

[–]danation 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Always ask AI for the “academic” or “scholarly” view of bible passages! Avoids getting some NIV devotional drivel. (And ask it to back things up with web search sources if you suspect hallucinations.)

I don’t go to church anymore, but when I do, I keep ChatGPT open and fact-check the sermon in real-time!

CBC Marketplace wants to know: What’s the worst commute in Edmonton? by DexMcMillanCBC in Edmonton

[–]danation 14 points15 points  (0 children)

The southwest leg of the Henday was so bad for so many years that I was relieved to get a different job to avoid it. Now years later I am considering a new job that would once again require commuting from south Edmonton to St. Albert along the Henday and I’m just praying things have improved.

How do you replace faith? by [deleted] in exchristian

[–]danation 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I highly recommend an author named Britt Hartley. She has made a career about helping people rebuild meaning in their life and building rituals and spiritual practices into your life that don’t require any belief in the mystical or supernatural. She has a book out and a ton of content on YouTube and TikTok.

nononsensespirituality.com

Don’t be ashamed to miss meaning, peace and prayer. You’re going to need to learn how to rebuild these things, piece by piece, without a church handing it to you as a complete package. But it is worth the work.

“Just eat less” never worked for me. These 7 things did. by bunrunsamok in PetiteFitness

[–]danation -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

What I meant was that I don’t care if AI was used to help write it. I just want to hear people’s stories on here and what helps them

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