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Jonsj t1_ja4a8ns wrote
Reply to comment by Shot-Job-8841 in How far off are we from not needing to learn languages? by AmericanMonsterCock
It's not an alternate perspective, poetry used to be very popular, movies, tv shows etc has surpassed poetry.
11.7% read poetry once a year in the US, the average US citizen watch 141 hours of tv a month!
The scale is not comparable. Poetry was just a small comparison to make a point. I am more curious to hear how people not understanding each other is good for innovation?
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Reply to comment by Shot-Job-8841 in How far off are we from not needing to learn languages? by AmericanMonsterCock
Within one language there is plenty of jargon and it constantly developes to fit the needs of the user.
This always happens with cultural, people confuse the function of a language (to communicate) with something special in of itself.
A good example is theater, theater used to be the dominant form of long form narrative entertainment, it was one of the best ways to satisfy the need people felt for this kind of entertainment. Now it's movies, or even tv-series. Poetry used to be very popular, now we moved on. How do you know that innovation is driven by different languages? The lingua franca of science is English and the majority of innovations are published in English.
If 10 people in a room all speak the same language, 10 people in the other room speaks all different languages, which group has the best chance of trading ideas?
Innovation comes from the the mixing of ideas, this is best understood if people can understand each other. Science would not be were it is if there were not a common understanding, that's actually one of the first thing you learn. Jargon, you learn the language of your discipline, to better understand previous knowledge and to communicate your ideas to others.
If my teacher or professor speaks a different language than me, how does that foster innovation? It does not, cooperation comes from understanding each other, not not understanding each other.
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Reply to comment by Adghar in How far off are we from not needing to learn languages? by AmericanMonsterCock
Why? Language is just a friction that stop us from communicating, why did we learn how to stop washing clothes by hand? Or run instead of flying?
It's just a block, something that makes life harder, not easier. It's a tool, you would learn far more if you could talk to everyone, far more perspectives and ways of looking at thing's.
People would understand each other better, less misunderstandings. You don't sound like a Luddite, you sound like someone that thinks the status quo has a benefit, just because it had been this way, not because it has an actual benefit.
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Reply to comment by NecrisRO in In the US, the gap between Black and White Homeownership is widening with each generation [OC] by Apartment_List
That would not average to 100% ownership, it would average to 1 home per person, very different.
The statistic would read 0,1% home ownership.
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Reply to comment by MonsieurKnife in Jail threats stop AI 'robot lawyer' from making its debut in court | Engadget by yourd00m
Why not let the AI practice medicine as well? The bar exam is designed to test a human competence as lawyer and it already assumes you are a human.
I have no doubt that in the future (right about now) the field of law will have great use of AI. It's a huge waste of resources to have some of the brightest hard working people looking through massive amounts of documents to match with our the law. Perfect use case for AI. Lawyers will oversee and lead the case. But the courtroom is the last place it show up and indepently try cases.
The human element is a design feature in courtroom not a flaw, we want lawyers that represents and fight for their clients, judges to oversee the process. We want there to be subjective judgements because we believe that intent and circumstances matter. The current best AI are probability large language models. Not empathic human beings.
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Reply to comment by Chiliconkarma in Russia ready to resume gas supplies to Europe via Yamal-Europe pipeline -Novak by IndependentTHNKR
There is plenty of hate as well, the easter European countries remember how they were treated during the Soviet union and Warsaw pact era.
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Reply to comment by kallerdis in Russia ready to resume gas supplies to Europe via Yamal-Europe pipeline -Novak by IndependentTHNKR
Is it? I know that it's priced based on on the most expensive part of the power generation chain, so gass is one of the most expensive way to generate kWh in most markets.
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Reply to comment by Gary_Vigoda in Quentin Tarantino responds to Kanye West saying Django Unchained was his idea by PineBarrens89
I still don't understand how you can use appropriation about art and culture inspiring and developing off each other.
All artist, all culture is based on something else, usually inspired or formed by society around the artist. Do you suggest we fine comb all culture and artistic expression, lock it down and then form a committee shutting down anything that can be found anywhere else? We also have to find the earliest expression of that art form and make sure they keep the rights to make anything in that expression and everything else is banned.
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Reply to comment by pdhx in Ukraine May Finally Get Greeceās Russian S-300 Missiles by srjain313
The US is already paying more person in health care cost than most of EU, it's the parasites that's the problem not the money.
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Reply to comment by jabbadarth in TIL that in 1979, a charity special episode of the academic student quiz show "It's Academic" was held between a team of three Democratic U.S. Senators, three Republican U.S. Senators, and three members of the press. The special was handily won by the press team. by FranklinDRoosevelt32
The overwhelming majority, 96%, of Members of the US Congress have a college education.
A degree from a top school or seeming to "academic" is sometimes seemed as negative in some political races. But it seems the american political elite are more highly educated and on average probaly higher than average intelligence.
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This is making it harder for Zelensky to ever accept a peace agreement from Russia.
If Putin wanted to negotiate he should have treated the ukranians as the "lost Russians" he claims they are. Show then how life is better with them than in Ukraine.
Instead he's making sure that Ukraine hates Russia and makes any compromise difficult. For every Ukrainian he kills and tortures he leaves behind a family fanatically opposed to any sort of peaceful coexistence with Russia. Each of them will teach their children to hate as well. This is how you generational conflicts. Killing and torturing civilians.
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Reply to comment by iller_mitch in Listening to podcasts may help satisfy our psychological need for social connection, study finds by mossadnik
Similar to twitch streamers, where people form very unhealthy one sided relationship with the host of the stream.
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Reply to comment by HobbitFoot in Returning to normal relations with Russia would be a mistake, says Lithuanian president by hieronymusanonymous
Even if gas storage won't last they will likely buy expensive lng and manage, none of the rich European countries stand to suffer much in this crisis, they will outbid and use monetary reserves to get through the winter.
Countries where the heating bill is a significant part of the monthly bill will suffer a lot more, these countries does not have the same resources to soften the fall for its citizens either;/
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Reply to comment by lughnasadh in The cloud and 5G security apocalypse is only a matter of time, say cybersecurity experts. Western companies that have switched from Huawei for 5G have made choices that are even more vulnerable to hacking. by lughnasadh
Why would not google and apple build apps capable of utilizing 5g? So far as I understand western companies are ahead of china in both platforms as well in the microchips required to run these.
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Reply to comment by Bigworm4444 in Hundreds of fencers sign letter to protest Russians competing by PrincessBananas85
How hard is it to recognize the aggressor in this war?