The Torment Nexus!

Ah, that rings a bell. I must've misrembered it. Corrected my comment.

https://fortune.com/2026/02/21/peter-thiel-bill-gates-steve-jobs-steve-chen-tech-billionaires-publicly-shielding-their-children-from-tech-products-social-media/

Food for thought

No it definitely has an impact, it's like "don't think about elephants" but with mistakes.

I bet it does have an impact on mistakes. I bet it tries harder to gaslight and hide them. Yeah, it doesn't actually decrease the quantity of mistakes, but it does change how things are presented and makes it use words that convince you it's actually considered things and won't have made a mistake.

For image generation it does. They give negative prompts like "wonky", "creepy", and "ugly", and the image generator evaluates how well the generated image matches those prompts, and produces images opposite those parameters.

Some poor artist in the training data not only had their work stolen to train the AI, but also had it labeled ugly and wonky.

It won't affect the output meaningfully except by rerolling whatever training data ends up being associated with that or whatever. It may end up getting the model to "check" its work which just compares previous output to training data.

Earlier LLMs it helped a bit.

Now a days the harnesses know to spawn 'review' agents which will catch some mistakes but not all.

I think of Dubai more like Las Vegas. It even shares events, like in Las Vegas. California has farming, where Dubai has to lease out its farming elsewhere to make its farming work.

Somehow my teachers were obsessed with silence. Stealing, bullying, breaking shit, nobody cares. Whispering to your neighbor though: the worst crime you could commit.

Our 15-minute break was mostly trying to avoid the bullies.

I like hearing what my daughter is learning just to get a sense of where she currently is because while I remember a lot of what was taught, I don't still have a good sense of what is taught at what grade. Like it's hard to still see calculus as top end high school math because it was introductionary level for university, though at least that one I remember that it was one of the top level math classes in high school. For the earlier stuff I have no idea, like trigonometry or polynomials. No idea if they were first introduced in high school or grade school lol.

Though that's just curiosity. When I'm asking if her day went well, it's pretty much about all the other stuff (unless she had particular trouble with some school subject to the point it became a major thing for the day). Though now that I think about it, I'm not sure she knows that, so I'll have to communicate that better.

I can only speak from experience but basically what I wrote. Teacher gives kids something to do, we all wait in silence for slowest kid to finish, zone out a bit during the teacher's monologues and go home at some point. I don't know what relevance friends have since there's barely any moment you're allowed to interact during school hours

I don't know if you meant "thinkering" but I like that word

Well I guess there's just no "one size fits all" and you really need to know your own kid/teenager. The math class and favorite thing from parent comment serve as good examples to try with a younger kid, but over time you learn what your kid's like as a person (as the personality itself changes over time). I myself was hella bored with school and would've answered similarly. Of course my mom knew me well enough not to ask me questions I wouldn't answer anyway, or at least not very often.

Parents should be invested in their child’s education. I blame my receding hairline on the fact that many are not.

I’m not saying parents need to go class by class or something, but school is such a big part of a kids life that they need to have at least a vague idea of what’s happening.

Yeah, many schools use some sort of online learning platform. Parents can access their kids grades and the assignments themselves at any time. Very useful for when little Jimmy has not turned in a single thing all year - “all of the assignments are available online, you can print out extra copies at home.”

I’ve just had too many parents expect me to reach out personally any time a kid doesn’t turn something in or starts failing. I’ve got ~100 kids, and two part time jobs on top of this - the live accountability should be sufficient for that.

I only ever ask "what did you have for lunch" and both kids will say "don't remember" or "check on your phone"

I hate those ones. They're so generic and corporate, it's hard to think of a good example. I don't fucking know when I "struggled with a difficult problem." Ask Me specifics about the job! Ask Me when I "worked in an unfamiliar programming language"

Teacher here.

For the littles, when we reflect on our day, I like to ask things like these:

• What was your favorite part of the day?
• What was the most interesting thing that you learned today?
• What was one kind thing that you did for someone today?
• What was a kind thing someone else did for you today?
• Did you solve any problems today?
• How were you honest today?
• How were you responsible today?
• What work were you proud of today?

Obviously not all on the same day.

Usually in the classroom I'll choose one question for reflection at the end of the day and let the kids share their answers. At home, you could talk about two or three at dinner or at bedtime.

I say you should be kind of invested in his relationships and hobbies. Don't interfere with tge relationships but just listen (a read-only type of interaction). Don't make it feel like interrogation.

Fucking hell, to think that we share oxygen with mouth-breathers like that.