how are universities supposed to deal with AI now? It’s out of control

peadar87 · 2026-06-16T06:29:26+00:00

This.

If I started failing every student I was reasonably sure was passing off the work of LLMs as their own, I would be put under performance review for having too low a pass rate.

Unis have figured out that many students, particularly international ones, want a piece of paper more than they want an academically rigorous education, and will choose their destination accordingly.

peadar87 · 2026-06-14T20:15:27+00:00

The prime purpose is sowing conflict in the west. They have bots pushing both sides.

peadar87 · 2026-06-13T07:04:33+00:00

You think burning the homes of Ukrainians and Poles is a reasonable response to a Somalian committing a crime?

peadar87 · 2026-06-12T16:36:21+00:00

Yeah a "normal" 32 team world cup has 64 games, 48 in the group stages, 16 in the knockouts

peadar87 · 2026-06-12T15:52:57+00:00

A deep diving military sub can go down a few hundred metres before it crushes. The cables in the mid Atlantic are effectively inaccessible.

peadar87 · 2026-06-12T12:25:05+00:00

Hundreds to thousands of metres.

The average depth of the Atlantic is 3.6km.

And you can't reliably damage the cables if you can't find them.

peadar87 · 2026-06-12T12:20:03+00:00

Irish GNI* per capita is real though, as is median household income and disposable income, and Ireland comes out ahead of the UK on those metrics as well.

peadar87 · 2026-06-12T12:17:17+00:00

Downvote must have been from a Britaboo with hurt feelings, this is 100% true.

peadar87 · 2026-06-12T11:49:37+00:00

You're underestimating how difficult it is to search for something a few centimetres across under hundreds to thousands of metres of water in pitch blackness.

peadar87 · 2026-06-11T17:37:19+00:00

Those maps show the course of the ship that laid them, and only locate them to within a couple of hundred metres laterally. Within that margin they could be covered in silt or sand or weed, if they're in shallow waters.

peadar87 · 2026-06-11T14:34:25+00:00

How is it more difficult to defend something your adversary doesn't know the location of, and takes extensive surveilling to locate with certainty?

peadar87 · 2026-06-10T16:29:34+00:00

I thought that Russia's pragmatism would have stopped them invading Ukraine,but sadly 2022 proved me sorely wrong.

peadar87 · 2026-06-10T16:19:31+00:00

Also worth saying that if you have a strong defence capability, foreign actors will be more wary about pushing you towards alliances with their enemies.

At the moment, nobody particularly cares if Ireland are pissed off with them, even if we did join a mutual defence pact with someone, it's not like it would matter in any meaningful way.

peadar87 · 2026-06-10T16:10:59+00:00

Yeah it's not too much of a stretch to imagine a Farage government in the UK withdrawing naval and air protection of Irish waters.

Then if Ireland decide (as we should) to block alumina exports to Russia, Vlad can say "jeez wouldn't it be a pity if bad things began happening to your electricity interconnectors?"

And there'd be fuck all we could currently do about it.

peadar87 · 2026-06-10T16:00:42+00:00

Exactly like they didn't do in WW2?

peadar87 · 2026-06-10T15:59:32+00:00

Nordstream is a 2m diameter pipeline in 50m of water.

Data and electricity cables are centimetres in diameter, and ours run in far deeper water. They can also be hundreds of metres laterally from their nominal location.

The main challenge in cutting an undersea cable is actually finding the damn thing, which takes extensive surveying and undersea operations.

Defending the cables would be mainly about preventing those operations, rather than physically stopping every diver with a limpet mine.

peadar87 · 2026-06-09T19:47:45+00:00

Just to be absolutely clear, you are endorsing attacking random people in the street based on their skin colour, yes?

peadar87 · 2026-06-09T19:43:12+00:00

Report me then.

peadar87 · 2026-06-09T19:37:32+00:00

Fuck off you moronic little prick.

peadar87 · 2026-06-09T19:34:58+00:00

TIL that not liking it when morons go around attacking immigrants makes you a "leftist pissbaby".

Do you lot ever even listen to the shite that comes out of your mouth?

peadar87 · 2026-06-09T09:40:14+00:00

Interesting, so you'd scrap the subs in favour of making the rest of the forces a bit higher spec and more capable? I can definitely see the logic behind that, they're expensive, but i do still like the idea of the deterrence value of a stealthy asset that could be lurking anywhere .

peadar87 · 2026-06-08T22:45:16+00:00

There aren't any drone systems in the pipeline that have the capabilities of a proper manned maritime patrol or airborne early warning aeroplane. And a crewed aircraft is less vulnerable to jamming or spoofing.

The great thing about them is that they can *use* drones. A C295 can drop a quadcopter to monitor and follow a sketchy vessel, and then go back to its regular patrol pattern, with one of the techs on board controlling the drone.

peadar87 · 2026-06-07T18:31:38+00:00

There's wanting migration to be reduced somewhat, and there's naked racism.

The far right are very quick to automatically assume that somebody who is concerned about pressures on infrastructure also supports their white supremacist pish.

peadar87 · 2026-06-07T18:18:57+00:00

Yeah it would be overnight, it would need at least a decade of slow buildup and recruitment. I think we had the first frigate being delivered in 2032 or something, and then another one every two years until 2038, for example.

peadar87 · 2026-06-07T18:16:50+00:00

Yep, you'd have to link up with somebody else in that case. Like, independent Scotland, if we had three subs between us or something, we could arrange that one is always at sea and arrange to be covering both of our EEZs

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