[ExI] ai in education

[Adrian Tymes]

On Sat, Mar 14, 2026 at 5:38 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> The main thing that I've noticed is that most examples of 'optimistic' SF are in books, but most of the 'pessimistic' stories are in films or TV series. It seems likely that someone's habitual type of entertainment - video form, or print form - would affect their impression of whether SF is generally pessimistic or not. I've always been a reader, so don't have the impression of SF being pessimistic that only seeing SF films/videos probably produces.

Destruction is easy, and easily explained and depicted.  One can see a
ruin and recognize that it is a ruin with no words needed.

Construction is nuanced, often requiring detailed explanations that do
not translate well outside of the written word.  Is a building that is
just sitting there, abandoned and desolate or working as designed?
The active process of construction is just that - active - and thus
takes much more effort and screen time to depict than a single image
of something that has been wrecked.