[ExI] scioly trained by chat

[Gadersd]

ChatGPT is bad at arithmetic but is good at working with symbolic equations. As long as the instruction is kept in terms of symbols rather than concrete numbers I think ChatGPT can be a good instructor in the sciences. ChatGPT is really good at calculation if you ask it to write a python program to compute the answers rather than do its own arithmetic in its “head".

> On Jan 14, 2023, at 10:07 PM, Gregory Jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> What if... this really wasn't some absurdly weird anomaly and chatGPT really is a great trainer on anything, a terrific way to get up to speed quickly on any random topic.  No wait chatGPT can't make one good at calculation based sciences such as dynamics or orbit mechanics for instance.  It could only be useful in areas with an enormous body of non conceptual terminology such as agriculture.  Ja?  spike
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> On Sat, Jan 14, 2023, 6:41 PM Gadersd via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>> wrote:
> What’s the point of human teachers anymore? ChatGPT can explain quantum physics better than any of my university professors were able to.
> 
>> On Jan 14, 2023, at 9:29 PM, Gregory Jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>> wrote:
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>> A freaking STONISHING the two local scioly teams put together six days ago with NO adult advisors NO teacher advisors NO human trainers NO existing student expertise NO farms nearby trained entirely by chatGPT going against 48 California teams won third and second place. spike
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>> On Thu, Jan 12, 2023, 10:07 AM <spike at rainier66.com <mailto:spike at rainier66.com>> wrote:
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>> From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org>> On Behalf Of
>> Dave S via extropy-chat
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>> 
>> >…I've got chickens. They eat what they can find, including bugs, plants,
>> snakes, and lizards, and pretty much anything I give them, including food
>> scraps, chicken feed, and dried meal worms and soldier fly larvae. So
>> chickens turning bugs into tasty meat and eggs is nothing new…
>> 
>> From an energy cycle perspective, we might be better off with slugs as
>> chicken food.  Roaches scurry about and use up energy.  Slugs are sluggish.
>> Good chance we can produce them in arbitrary quantities using few resources.
>> 
>> >…Another approach would be to chemically process insects into something
>> like fake meat that has none of the flavor, smell, or texture of bugs. -Dave
>> 
>> We have a persistent marketing problem with getting people to eat bugs,
>> regardless of how they are processed and regardless of how good or how
>> nutritious they are.  It’s analogous to the marketing problem Charlton
>> Heston introduced in the last 5 seconds of the movie with Soylent Green.
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>> spike
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