The interviewed speaker, who holds a PhD in child education and development, explained that attachment is a uniquely human trait enabling long-lasting bonds between parents and children. This attachment mechanism has been fundamental to transmitting culture across generations. He introduced the concept of "attachment hacking" and named it a technique that platforms like Facebook and Instagram use to keep users engaged. With AI, this becomes even more concerning. Several AI companies are attempting to position their products as parental substitutes. Rather than children being socialized through technology as a tool, technology itself is now socializing children. Instead of learning culture and what it means to be human from other people, children risk learning these things from AI.

The speaker advocates for a better approach to technology education for children: teaching them how technology works, where it comes from, and how it's made; rather than just how to use software. The goal is to empower children as informed creators rather than victims of large-scale behavioral control, understanding technology's mechanisms rather than simply conforming to what companies want them to do as consumers.

I have been taking a class called solve it this holiday to learn programming with LLM assisting. The result was fun. One of the projects I did was building platonic solids paper templates. I wish i had learnt these in my geometry class.

After hand building a template for each of the shapes, I thought I just want an LLM build one for me by giving it the shape that I wanted. Surprisingly this is really hard for them. They can't get a single one right. https://share.solve.it.com/d/c6ca11ce650450ab2bb38b5193dac44e

Then my teacher joined and help me make it better (but llm still cannot fo it): https://share.solve.it.com/d/cb0c3b8d182b040de1b20a078b04ec98

Emacs Reader, talk, code, emacsconf page This talk described a fast new document reader that leverages dynamic modules. This made it work faster than docview or pdftools.

LLM & Emacs talk, talk, emacsconf page This talk explores what is "editing" and how different classes of emacs LLM tools goes with, or against editing. A quick tour of many tools + an easy going philosophical discussion.

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