Em Adespoton

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  • No, it really isn’t. It’s one method of exercising critical thinking, but someone can go through life never having written an essay and still develop and demonstrate their critical thinking skills.

    It’s when we get the vehicle confused with or fused to the concept that we run into trouble in cases like handling LLM use in education.

    Should students learn how to craft an essay? Definitely. It teaches all sorts of additional skills that are required to write in that format, assuming you have to generate the entire written work yourself.

    Similarly, long division is a useful skill to learn, as are Riemann sums. But so is using a graphing calculator to do your dividing and differentiation for you. LLMs are a tool, not much different from a graphing calculator.









  • First question: do you have Canadian citizenship or a route to it? Because if you don’t, the answer to your question is a hard “no”.

    If you do have a route to citizenship: if you’re living north of 60, unless you’re in a populated area, you not only will be limited to satellite Internet access, you also won’t have electricity or water or road access — you’ll have to come up with your own solutions, which usually involve someone flying in gas, propane and other supplies a few times a year for an exorbitant price.

    Property values in most parts of Canada seem to be doubling around every 10 years. So you’ll want to go on to realtor.ca and look for property currently selling for around $50,000.

    When I went looking around 15 years ago, I found a property for that price in southern Manitoba that had Internet, power and a well, a nicely renovated house and 2 acres of land. Today of course, it would sell for about $200,000, and you’re looking at no less than $400,000 in 10 years. The nearest populated area was in the US.

    Your best place to start looking is realtor.ca, combined with Google Earth. Then once you find some places for $50k or less, ask a chatbot questions about cost of food, availability of water, etc. in that area.






  • “Fancy lawyers” as portrayed in the article, are the ones who come out of a handful of elite law schools with the expectation that they will eventually become chief justices. It’s about more than having a law degree.

    That said, I think I still disagree with their argument; there’s plenty of justices with law degrees who in general are awesome; and going the route they’re arguing could in fact return to the era of political justices with no legal background; that’s not an outcome I ever want to see.