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The Social Scene: Necessary Human Interaction
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The Social Scene: Necessary Human Interaction

I have spent a sizeable portion of this #blogathon discussing the power and capability of ChatGPT critically. I have used, and I assume, many other people use it directly and personally. One-on-one, so to speak. Through this approach, I have built some interesting things over the last two months - Bird Strike Bot and a fast-time simulation. However, I still enjoy the much less predictable but often fruitful world of human interaction, whether it’s an active social media life or traditional methods like networking and formal education.

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Don't Wait for the Investigation Report: Speculation Can Be Good
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Don't Wait for the Investigation Report: Speculation Can Be Good

In these times of almost ubiquitous video, we are sometimes inundated with footage from all manner of safety incidents and accidents. Coupled with social media, professional and otherwise, this makes for lively discussions on causes and contributory factors as soon as the footage becomes available. Unfortunately, a lot of these discussions are not useful and are often met with calls to wait for the investigation report and resist the urge to speculate.

But I can’t say that I agree with the blanket call to avoid speculation and wait for an investigation report and here is why.

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