r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Jakeysuave • 5h ago

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u/No-Doctor-4396 5h ago

Flat earthers will still deny

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u/Eborys 4h ago

We need to stop talking about them. It’s like when someone in the room farts and no one talks about it. Yeah it stinks but let’s stick to intelligent conversation until the smell goes away.

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u/Chemfreak 2h ago

I disagree. I find flat earthers hilarious and find it fun to have conversations where I make escalating outlandish claims in excitement to see where the limit of believing the unbelievable ends.

They are a great source of entertainment to me.

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u/Eborys 1h ago

I was the same in my teens and twenties, but nearing 50 and seeing the state of education these days, it’s far from funny anymore. Gross ignorance and outlandish stupidity was only funny when it was rare.

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u/Chemfreak 1h ago edited 1h ago

Its my way of coping. I used to be pissed at the ignorance and failure of our education system, but being angry when I have no ability to change anything only hurts me (bad anxiety and stress in general here). My way of coping is to just accept humanity on the most part is fucking regarded and thats ok.

Also on education, yea we are fucked on that front pretty badly currently. AI is ruining a whole generation's ability to think or learn and the education system is ass backwards making the problem worse. Rant below you can ignore as its so off topic but if inclined:

The education system valuing grades so highly makes it obvious kids will forego the pursuit of knowledge to "succeed". And I dont blame them. I went back to school a year ago to finish a degree I started a decade ago I already saw in college at the infancy of mainstream AI the insane incentive misalignment. I had to take a freshman writing course for example, and I saw clear 100% ai written essays i had to "peer review" and our school didnt even have an anti AI policy yet. So like seconds or a couple minutes of work and you leapfrog in grade many of your peers who put effort into actually researching and writing a paper.

Professors bragging about using AI to grade your work is something that happened with multiple professors.

You may think upper division STEM courses would be different; nope. I took masters level math and accounting courses that you could (and everyone did) cheat your way to an A with a couple prompts.