The most obvious thing I can think of is that it allows people who are unable to connect with people in real life due to disabilities and such to connect with groups of people from all walks of life and have a meaningful social life.
Our tool use and application of our intelligence is still quite unique. Special is a loaded term, but humans are very different from all other life forms on this planet - and of course, in many ways, still very much the same.
Hier sieht man aber auch schön das Problem dieser Klagen: Niemand ist verantwortlich, weil man Politiker nicht individuell verantwortlich machen kann und weil die Regierung eben schon gewechselt hat. Also klar, die Regierung muss jetzt was schaffen. Aber wenn nicht, passiert halt trotzdem nichts.
Die Konsequenzen solcher Urteile müssten sich bei Wahlen zeigen, aber das tun sie ja selten.
Ich wusste nicht viel über Connemann, also las ich mal ihren Wikipedia-Artikel.
Im Jahr 2009 gab Connemann ein Gutachten beim Wissenschaftlichen Dienst des Deutschen Bundestages in Auftrag, das klären sollte, ob außerirdisches Leben existiert.
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Mitte 2014 war sie eine von insgesamt fünf Bundestagsabgeordneten, die gegen die Einführung des gesetzlichen Mindestlohns stimmten.
Oh Gott ...
Sie machte sich für eine Ausweitung der Werbebeschränkungen für Zigaretten stark.
Well, with such a glowing endorsement I'll have to give it a try. I checked yesterday, though, and they don't have Japanese, which I want to learn, and Korean, which I am almost "done" learning. So I guess it'll have to wait until I start learning a different language.
Wow, that is very impressive! I've got a long way to go ... Only 2 at C2 and one at around B2. Also a bit of French, I'd say A1+. Did you use Babbel for all of them? I'm really curious what it does that makes it work so much better than the other apps I've come in contact with. I might have to try it. :D
Fair enough. I'm happy that it works for you. I suppose maybe Babbel is the exception. My friends mostly use Duolingo and Lingoda and those are awful, judging by their progress.
Do you speak those 8 languages to a high level? C1 or C2? It's not that I don't believe you and I don't mean to sound condescending, but I've met a lot of people who say they speak 4+ languages and then really only speak them at a A2-B1 level. That's not nothing, but that's not what I'm aiming for and I think not what most people are aiming for.
I want to start learning Japanese this year and I might give Babbel a try, but I'll probably end up sticking to textbooks for grammar + Anki for vocab + podcasts/tv/games and later on books for immersion. But I think part of that is also that I don't really want to study on my phone. Even doing Anki on it is annoying.
Is he really going to get traded with his current injury and his contract? He's 31 and his entire playstyle is built around intense athletic superiority. Once that diminishes, what kind of player will he realistically be? What team would want him?
I think he won't get traded before the deadline. Maybe in summer.
I know a lot of people love language learning apps, but I'd argue for a different approach: Don't use them at all. I like learning languages a lot, and focus on fluency in one language at a time over learning just the basics in many (nothing wrong with that, just not my approach). And what really works for me has always been a mixture of textbooks, dedicated vocab studying and tons of immersion. Language learning apps are fun, but they don't make you do the boring, hard work that actually sees results.
From my own experience: I know many people who have years-long streaks on DuoLingo and others, but actually speak very little of their target language. Meanwhile I've never used a language for learning Korean (Self-taught. I've been at it for nearly 5 years now) and I can speak to my Korean friends for hours while only having to look up words very occasionally or having them explained to me in Korean.
By all means, use Babbel or another European alternative if you are going to use them. But maybe also consider changing your approach, you might see much better results.
Really interesting approach, but I must agree with the critics that this needs much better testing. The bureaucracy may be annoying, but we do rigorous testing for a reason. The harm that could be done by unsafe, untested vaccines is not just problematic because of the people that it could harm directly, but because of the already growing number of people who are unwilling to vaccinate themselves and their children out of (unfounded) concerns over safety.
While I would agree, many people really do hate the idea of electric cars for no other reason than nostalgia for combustion engines. But it's changing.
Das sehe ich tatsächlich anders. Zwar können manche Bakterien meines Wissens nach die Hormonproduktion ihres Wirts manipulieren. Aber Hormone sind in erster Näherung ein exklusives Merkmal mehrzelligen Lebens. Bakterien haben natürlich trotzdem Signalmechanismen, z. B. "Quorum sensing", dass zur Zell-Zell-Kommunikation mit anderen Bakterien genutzt wird. (für Interessierte zum Quorum-Sensing: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5870893/)
Man muss dabei zwischen dem physiologischen Hungerzustand und dem damit assoziierten Gefühl, das wir wahrnehmen unterscheiden. Das menschliche Hungergefühl entsteht im Nervensystem. Die zugrundeliegenden Prozesse könnten theoretisch auch stattfinden, ohne dass du sie wahrnimmst. Hunger ist zwar hormongesteuert, aber diese Hormone wie z.B. Ghrelin aktivieren neben biochemischen Prozessen auch Neuronen, und durch diese entsteht das eigentliche Appetitgefühl.
Just because we can't see it doesn't mean we can't observe it and characterize it. This line of thinking is so limited because it only considers our senses in how they're applied directly.
Is reality actually what we experience? Who knows. Does it matter? Not really, I'd argue. There are provable facts underlying the reality we experience which are true regardless of an individual or even a collective's perception of them. Gamma rays exist without you perceiving them. But they are provably true. Their effects can be measured. They can be observed. If they couldn't, then we would never know they exist and thus they'd in essence not exist for us. But would that matter?
Cool, danke für die Quellen! Ist ein spannendes Thema, und sehr relevant für mein Studienfach (Biochemie). Ich werde mich mal einlesen.
Und selbstverständlich sind Darmbakterien nicht buchstäblich glücklich, das ist im übertragenen Sinn zu verstehen, ich dachte das wäre offensichtlich
Im Nachhinein beim Nochmallesen ist es tatsächlich offensichtlich. Das ist glaube ich meine ganz persönliche Abneigung dagegen, Mikroorganismen und Viren menschliche Züge zuzuschreiben. Sorry dafür, es war nicht böse gemeint!
Das führt zu verstärktem Hungergefühl und entsprechend mehr Konsum von erwähntem Abfall.
Hast du dafür Quellen? Natürlich ist gesunde Ernährung ein großer Faktor bei der Bildung einer für den menschlichen Körper gesunden Darmflora. Aber die Aussage, dass explizit das Hungern der Bakterien zu erhöhtem Appetit führt muss schon belegt werden.
Zumal mich die Formulierung "desto glücklicher ist die Darmbevölkerung" etwas stutzig macht. Bakterien haben keine Nervensysteme, die sind nicht glücklich oder unglücklich.
Trotzdem natürlich grundsätzlich richtig: Die Darmflora hat einen Einfluss auf Appetit. Ich wäre nur an einer Quelle für den genauen Zusammenhang interessiert.
In before people let AI write their papers, then copy them by hand.
The most obvious thing I can think of is that it allows people who are unable to connect with people in real life due to disabilities and such to connect with groups of people from all walks of life and have a meaningful social life.
Still, lots of negatives as you said.
Our tool use and application of our intelligence is still quite unique. Special is a loaded term, but humans are very different from all other life forms on this planet - and of course, in many ways, still very much the same.
Hier sieht man aber auch schön das Problem dieser Klagen: Niemand ist verantwortlich, weil man Politiker nicht individuell verantwortlich machen kann und weil die Regierung eben schon gewechselt hat. Also klar, die Regierung muss jetzt was schaffen. Aber wenn nicht, passiert halt trotzdem nichts.
Die Konsequenzen solcher Urteile müssten sich bei Wahlen zeigen, aber das tun sie ja selten.
Ich wusste nicht viel über Connemann, also las ich mal ihren Wikipedia-Artikel.
???
Oh Gott ...
Hey, immerhin etwas.
Well, with such a glowing endorsement I'll have to give it a try. I checked yesterday, though, and they don't have Japanese, which I want to learn, and Korean, which I am almost "done" learning. So I guess it'll have to wait until I start learning a different language.
Wow, that is very impressive! I've got a long way to go ... Only 2 at C2 and one at around B2. Also a bit of French, I'd say A1+. Did you use Babbel for all of them? I'm really curious what it does that makes it work so much better than the other apps I've come in contact with. I might have to try it. :D
Fair enough. I'm happy that it works for you. I suppose maybe Babbel is the exception. My friends mostly use Duolingo and Lingoda and those are awful, judging by their progress.
Do you speak those 8 languages to a high level? C1 or C2? It's not that I don't believe you and I don't mean to sound condescending, but I've met a lot of people who say they speak 4+ languages and then really only speak them at a A2-B1 level. That's not nothing, but that's not what I'm aiming for and I think not what most people are aiming for.
I want to start learning Japanese this year and I might give Babbel a try, but I'll probably end up sticking to textbooks for grammar + Anki for vocab + podcasts/tv/games and later on books for immersion. But I think part of that is also that I don't really want to study on my phone. Even doing Anki on it is annoying.
Is he really going to get traded with his current injury and his contract? He's 31 and his entire playstyle is built around intense athletic superiority. Once that diminishes, what kind of player will he realistically be? What team would want him?
I think he won't get traded before the deadline. Maybe in summer.
I know a lot of people love language learning apps, but I'd argue for a different approach: Don't use them at all. I like learning languages a lot, and focus on fluency in one language at a time over learning just the basics in many (nothing wrong with that, just not my approach). And what really works for me has always been a mixture of textbooks, dedicated vocab studying and tons of immersion. Language learning apps are fun, but they don't make you do the boring, hard work that actually sees results.
From my own experience: I know many people who have years-long streaks on DuoLingo and others, but actually speak very little of their target language. Meanwhile I've never used a language for learning Korean (Self-taught. I've been at it for nearly 5 years now) and I can speak to my Korean friends for hours while only having to look up words very occasionally or having them explained to me in Korean.
By all means, use Babbel or another European alternative if you are going to use them. But maybe also consider changing your approach, you might see much better results.
Really interesting approach, but I must agree with the critics that this needs much better testing. The bureaucracy may be annoying, but we do rigorous testing for a reason. The harm that could be done by unsafe, untested vaccines is not just problematic because of the people that it could harm directly, but because of the already growing number of people who are unwilling to vaccinate themselves and their children out of (unfounded) concerns over safety.
While I would agree, many people really do hate the idea of electric cars for no other reason than nostalgia for combustion engines. But it's changing.
As a German, you're not wrong :D
War genau mein Gedankenverlauf. Deprimierend.
Das sehe ich tatsächlich anders. Zwar können manche Bakterien meines Wissens nach die Hormonproduktion ihres Wirts manipulieren. Aber Hormone sind in erster Näherung ein exklusives Merkmal mehrzelligen Lebens. Bakterien haben natürlich trotzdem Signalmechanismen, z. B. "Quorum sensing", dass zur Zell-Zell-Kommunikation mit anderen Bakterien genutzt wird. (für Interessierte zum Quorum-Sensing: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5870893/)
Man muss dabei zwischen dem physiologischen Hungerzustand und dem damit assoziierten Gefühl, das wir wahrnehmen unterscheiden. Das menschliche Hungergefühl entsteht im Nervensystem. Die zugrundeliegenden Prozesse könnten theoretisch auch stattfinden, ohne dass du sie wahrnimmst. Hunger ist zwar hormongesteuert, aber diese Hormone wie z.B. Ghrelin aktivieren neben biochemischen Prozessen auch Neuronen, und durch diese entsteht das eigentliche Appetitgefühl.
Zu Ghrelin, dem wahrscheinlich wichtigsten Hungerhormon, gibt es einen ganz netten Übersichtsartikel von 2015: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212877815000605?via=ihub
In anderen Worten: Ich glaube, Bakterien reagieren auf Nährstoffmangel mit physiologischen Veränderungen und Verhalten, aber sie fühlen keinen Hunger.
While often true, they still end up making life better for millions of people often enough to be worth it.
Just because we can't see it doesn't mean we can't observe it and characterize it. This line of thinking is so limited because it only considers our senses in how they're applied directly.
Is reality actually what we experience? Who knows. Does it matter? Not really, I'd argue. There are provable facts underlying the reality we experience which are true regardless of an individual or even a collective's perception of them. Gamma rays exist without you perceiving them. But they are provably true. Their effects can be measured. They can be observed. If they couldn't, then we would never know they exist and thus they'd in essence not exist for us. But would that matter?
Cool, danke für die Quellen! Ist ein spannendes Thema, und sehr relevant für mein Studienfach (Biochemie). Ich werde mich mal einlesen.
Im Nachhinein beim Nochmallesen ist es tatsächlich offensichtlich. Das ist glaube ich meine ganz persönliche Abneigung dagegen, Mikroorganismen und Viren menschliche Züge zuzuschreiben. Sorry dafür, es war nicht böse gemeint!
Hast du dafür Quellen? Natürlich ist gesunde Ernährung ein großer Faktor bei der Bildung einer für den menschlichen Körper gesunden Darmflora. Aber die Aussage, dass explizit das Hungern der Bakterien zu erhöhtem Appetit führt muss schon belegt werden.
Zumal mich die Formulierung "desto glücklicher ist die Darmbevölkerung" etwas stutzig macht. Bakterien haben keine Nervensysteme, die sind nicht glücklich oder unglücklich.
Trotzdem natürlich grundsätzlich richtig: Die Darmflora hat einen Einfluss auf Appetit. Ich wäre nur an einer Quelle für den genauen Zusammenhang interessiert.
Well, didn't know this. I guess I'm uninstalling EGS. I'm not using it much anyway.