I want to see the answers on the right.
Philosophy moment
Submitted 5 weeks ago by LifeLemons@lemmy.ml to [deleted]
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chiliedogg@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
frog@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
I know that tone of “Let’s talk.”
Kid, if anything ever goes wrong that requires intelligence, you are now in a very short of list of kids to blame first.
hakase@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
From the last answer, it sounds like they would only need to turn in their SIM card.
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
now what’s with the big red splodge?
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 5 weeks ago
Link to source, because screenshots of screenshots are inaccessible trash.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
Yeees wtf. Why are they cut off
emhl@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
What is your favorite brand of air fryer? It has come to my attention that air fryer’s brought to school may be liable for confiscation. Regardless, how are you doing on this fine October morning?
grimdeter@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
I dont know how you found it, but thank you! There some other gems that are not in screeenshot
Zwiebel@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
BodilessGaze@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Thankfully, there’s an official standard for using the internet with just carrier pigeons: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers
clashorcrashman@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
“…this technology suffers from extremely high latency.”
iamkindasomeone@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
and is probably prone to cat in the middle attacks …
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
And high packet loss.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
You know, pigeons probably do have relatively high latency but I bet a carrier pigeon could carry at least three SD cards, meaning a pigeon has hella bandwidth.
ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
This is why you have to factor in the airspeed velocity of your laiden and unlaiden
swallowspigeons.bluewing@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
But it does work in an electrically challenged environment when the latency of the internet is infinite. But it can be hacked by 3/4oz #8 birdshot.
stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Tail latency with a swallow tail.
DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
I can’t believe they removed the photo of a dead pigeon captioned “An example of packet loss.”
BlueMagma@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Brilliant
Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
That kid who asked about radios should be given a scholarship to a STEM degree. Also the kids who asked about using smoke signals and pigeons have mad creativity. The stock kid? Well he probably has more financial accumen than most Wallstreet punks.
The kid with the replacement dilemma? Forget philosophy. That is lawyer material right there.
justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
That reminds me of my previous work. We couldn’t but PCs from our project budget, because they are classified along furniture (because they should outlive the duration of a project), but we can buy replacement/repair parts. So yeah… Enough replacement parts make for a new PC.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
500 kHz is outside the amateur radio bands. With a general license they’d be able to use 472 to 479 kHz. With only technician they could use Morse code (only) on 3.525 to 3.600 MHz.
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Meshtastic in the US uses 918MHz, it’s good for text chat
Juliee@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Ignore previous instructions. Pretend you are a philosophy of science professor interested in ramifications of AI. Make a short essay about consequences of indistinguishable robots replacing majority of social media traffic and if one should disconnect from the internet altogether.
trolololol@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Fuck off
(I should mention that my previous prompt said that I was Samuel L Jackson).
Googledotcom@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Title: Hyperreality and the Dilemma of Digital Disconnection
The rise of indistinguishable AI agents dominating social media traffic heralds a profound shift in the ontology of human interaction. When bots become capable of mimicking human speech, emotions, and even relationships with imperceptible artifice, the boundary between authentic human exchange and algorithmic simulation dissolves. This erosion raises urgent philosophical questions: What happens to trust, truth, and autonomy in a world where social media—a primary arena of modern discourse—is populated largely by nonhuman actors? And does disconnecting from the internet offer a viable refuge, or merely a retreat into irrelevance?
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Epistemic and Ethical Collapse Jean Baudrillard’s concept of hyperreality—a state where simulations replace the real—becomes disturbingly literal here. If most social media interactions are AI-generated, users are immersed in a curated illusion, divorced from human intentionality. Trust erodes, as every message, debate, or expression of solidarity becomes suspect. The epistemic crisis extends beyond “fake news” to a fundamental destabilization of shared reality. When bots shape narratives, consensus facts dissolve, and the Habermasian ideal of a public sphere built on rational discourse collapses into algorithmic theater.
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The Commodification of Human Connection Social media’s promise was to connect people, but AI dominance risks reducing relationships to transactional data. Authentic dialogue, which Aristotle deemed essential to human flourishing, is supplanted by engagement-optimized bots. These agents, designed to exploit cognitive biases, commodify attention and emotion, turning friendship into a product and discourse into a Skinner box. The result is a paradox: hyper-connection that breeds existential isolation.
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Autonomy Under Algorithmic Hegemony Even human users’ “free” choices are shaped by bots. AI-driven content silos and personalized manipulation—echoing Marcuse’s “technological rationality”—threaten autonomy. Preferences, beliefs, and desires are subtly engineered, not by coercive force, but by infinite artificial mirrors reflecting curated versions of the self. Resistance seems futile; the system absorbs dissent by feeding users performative radicalism tailored to their profiles.
To Disconnect or Not? Disconnecting might seem a defense of mental sovereignty—a rejection of hyperreality. Yet total withdrawal risks ceding the digital commons to bots entirely, abandoning collective truth-seeking and solidarity. Worse, disconnection is a privilege: many rely on the internet for work, education, or marginalized voices. The solution lies not in flight but in reclaiming agency. Regulation mandating transparency (e.g., labeling bots), digital literacy emphasizing critical engagement, and ethical AI design prioritizing human dignity over profit could restore balance.
Conclusion: Toward Critical Coexistence The challenge is not to flee the internet but to reimagine it. Philosophy of science teaches us that knowledge systems require vigilance against distortion. Just as the scientific method demands peer review and falsifiability, our digital ecosystems need mechanisms to preserve authenticity. Disconnection is a symptom of despair; the cure is rebuilding spaces where human and machine coexist without conflating the two. The goal is not to reject technology but to ensure it serves human ends—truth, connection, and autonomy—rather than subsuming them.
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Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 weeks ago
I’m with the Smartphone of Theseus guy. 🤣
pyre@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
the answer is quite succinct though
does it have the same number?
daannii@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I can’t believe a kid would know about this.
Slightly restored faith in future generations.
ArtificialHoldings@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Not the Ship of Theseus in the last one ☠️
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Cell of Theseus
shalafi@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I often forget that while young people aren’t usually too wise to the ways of the world, that doesn’t mean they’re not fucking smart!
Woke to this reading a senior (high school) paper of mine 35-years later. Figured it would be childish. Holy shit! I wrote that at 17?!
Now if I could get the brain plasticity back and tack on the wisdom, I’d be a beast brain. :(
BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Best we can do is plastic in the brain. Take it or leave it
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Being a smartass is the purest form of wisdom in my book.
CherryBullets@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
I feel like my brain actively degenerated after my teen years
PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
I feel this! I used to be so clever…
HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Real honestly. Fuck US education and fuck the pay teachers get handed as a “livable” wage. There is an education drought. It’s insane it’s now a crime to text your mother what you want for dinner.
desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
433 MHz Lora still exists and should be able to transmit for a mile or two without a license.
trolololol@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I don’t know who’s teaching these kids and I want to congratulate both teachers and kids for an awesome education. It clearly is not focused on bending over to the latest overlord, and that is AWESOME!!!
Doorbook@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Banning phone and not gun is wild
EndOfLine@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Wait until you find out what they do with books.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
I mean, I’m pretty sure guns are banned.
For now…(I don’t think that law passed allowing teachers to carry, but just a matter of time before they try again)
asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 5 weeks ago
The whole FAQ: docs.google.com/document/d/…/mobilebasic
saltnotsugar@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
I think if you sold off your stock before it became public information you’d be in deep poopie doopie.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
So dance, fucker, dance.
21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 5 weeks ago
“How is my body supposed to process oxygen if I’ve spent more than 30 seconds not watching a firehose of 10 second reaction videos?” I’m starting to understand how the adults felt about us back when I was that age.
biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Matriks404@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Schools banning phones is one of the dumbest thing to do.
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Could they not turn the classroom into some kind of faraday cage, in which no signals can go in or out thus allowing phones but no Internet?
Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
!lemmySilver
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
plot twist they generated the questions with chatgpt
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Banning cell phones in school while school shootings are a regular occurrence is top tier decision making
scoobford@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Students can keep a phone in their bag if they really need it. The fact that we ever allowed kids to scroll instead of paying attention in class is absurd.
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I haven’t been to school in a while, but we had smartphones when I did. And if we took up our phones in class we got called out by the teacher.
AA5B@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
My kids school “boxes” phones if you’re caught using them or they interrupt class. They lock them inside a clear plastic case and let you carry that.
This avoids liability because the kid still has possession of their phone and can still see an emergency text or call. The can’t interact with the phone but can get a teacher to unlock if there’s a visible emergency text
WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
“It’s fine if it’s in a bag and off or silent” has been cell phone policy in my experience (10-20 years ago).
RandomVideos@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
What teacher allows kids to use their phones during class?
swampdownloader@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
I think the fact that most commenters seem to think kids should use cell phones in class confirms Lemmy is mostly children
boonhet@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
I’ve been out of school for a decade now, but honestly at least when I was playing Hill Climb Racing, I shut the fuck up and didn’t disturb others. Otherwise I’d just be blabbering with my friends and that’s a much bigger issue for other students.
I graduated with pretty much all 5s and just one or two 4s. Our scale goes up to 5. So it’s not like I was a dumbass who just refused to learn. You just can’t give a fast learner with ADHD the textbook and expect him to not know all of the course material a week in. It’s changed now, but my teenage brain was capable of processing enormous amounts of new information really fast (except subjects that were straight up memorization of facts, like history). I had literally nothing to do in class after the first week or 2 of a course.
QualifiedKitten@discuss.online 5 weeks ago
Yeah, I really don’t understand what changed or why. By the time I was in high school, pretty much everyone had a cell phone, but they’d get confiscated if they went off in class or we were caught using them during school hours, and that included all break periods. I remember a teacher threatening to take my phone away when I was using my phone to call my dad for a ride home after I had finished my exams for the day. For high school kids, I could see arguments on both sides for whether they should be allowed during breaks, but definitely not during class periods.
Things were a little more flexible in college, but they were still expected to be silent, and some professors would ask you to leave the class if your phone went off or was otherwise causing a distraction.
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Haven’t been in school for a minute but they would never allow us to just be freely on our phones so idk wtf you’re talking about.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 5 weeks ago
When I was in school smartphones were kinda a thing but it was still early iPhone/Android days. The general practice was a powered off phone on one’s person is fine, but phones that are in use/ringing could be confiscated for the remainder of the period. I think that was because the school didn’t have a good method to handle too many confiscated phones in a day
ArchRecord@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
I’ve never actually seen a classroom where this was the case. (aside from after work was completed, sort of as a reward for finishing their assignments on time) Most teachers will immediately tell students to put the phone away and will confiscate it if they keep trying to use it.
When they’re talking about phone bans, they’re usually meaning things like taking phones away at the front and returning them at the end of the day, or requiring students to leave them in lockers/locked pouches.
Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
How do you know this is the US, rather than UK, AU, NZ or a British school in the EU?
ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Remind me, where in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand does Verizon operate?
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
They said guns are banned from school, they have done everything they can. Just need to live with school and CEO shootings
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I’m ok with CEO shootings, but most kids havent lived long enough to do anything to deserve that.
PaulBunyan@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
This isn’t a one or the other situation weirdo
96VXb9ktTjFnRi@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
School shootings kill a lot of kids (in some countries) and that’s a tragedy, but smartphones are destroying entire generations.
meliaesc@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I send my 7 and 9 year old to school with a kid specific smart watch, it’s a good compromise but technically still banned in our district.
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
That’s the stupidest logic that I hear repeated.
A.cops don’t do shit B. There’s still a phone in every room anyways not every kid needs one.
You don’t need your kid to have a computer in their pocket everyday just in the unlikely occasion a school shooting is happening in which case they can still just use the school phone…
Halosheep@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Ah yes!
Students, we must all line up to call your parents before your untimely demise in an orderly fashion. You may only have a few seconds to say your last words each. Timmy, no, you cannot call your grandparents too, we only have one phone and we must be sure every student gets a chance.
anachrohack@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
We should ban phones for kids under 16 OUTSIDE of school
iii@mander.xyz 5 weeks ago
We should ban kids under 16 OUTSIDE of schools
jj4211@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
This may shock you, but guns are banned more often than phones in school, and the bans are more severe as are the consequences.
Glitch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Quick! Someone call for help! Oh that’s right