[HN Gopher] The Feelings Monster: building a character with all ... ___________________________________________________________________ The Feelings Monster: building a character with all the feels Author : nickmain Score : 15 points Date : 2022-11-30 19:39 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (medium.com) (TXT) w3m dump (medium.com) | floren wrote: | The Feelings Monster looks like it should be selling me cheap | cell phone service | (https://d2z1w4aiblvrwu.cloudfront.net/ad/7EZD/cricket-wirele...) | collegeburner wrote: | this article managed to singlehandedly make me bearish on msft. | when will bigtechs stop wasting money on trivial PC bullshit and | focus on earnings? | remexre wrote: | This is literally a tool for children to use in classrooms to | learn about how to respond to their emotions reasonably | collegeburner wrote: | yeah it strikes me as a complete waste of time. nobody needed | this 70 years ago, they learned reading writing and | arithmetic fine and no weird "tools" required. why is msft | wasting time on this? using senior designer time on whether | some character should have thumbs and eyebrows? what??? | jjulius wrote: | >yeah it strikes me as a complete waste of time. nobody | needed this 70 years ago. | | On the contrary. As someone currently raising children, I | can confidently say that historically, we have done a | terrible job of teaching people how to have, be OK with, | and process feelings in a healthy way. We may not have done | this 70 years ago, but we certainly needed it then, just as | much as we do now. | | And that's setting aside the fact that, "We didn't need X | back in the day, so why do we need it now?" is a generally | terrible take. | jacksnipe wrote: | What an uninformed opinion. Just because you don't need | them doesn't mean nobody does. Autism is a real problem, | and solving real problems is something companies do for | profit, not because it's "PC". | collegeburner wrote: | ole reliable "you came to a different conclusion than me | so you must be uninformed". come on. this is not MS' core | competency and it's a diversion of resources. i'm hearing | about how azure has capacity problems but they're sinking | dollars into this? | | why not just let the autism research guys or whatever | develop this stuff? | jjulius wrote: | >... it's a diversion of resources. | | How do you know that resources were diverted? Are you | suggesting that the same people responsible for Azure's | capacity issues are the same people working on this? | Because these are two wholly different things that | require different sunsets of skills. | | >why not just let the autism research guys or whatever | develop this stuff? | | Why not just let the plumber fly the plane? Why not just | let the cook captain the ship? | | Autism researchers partner with people who can develop | these tools. That's what's happening here. | jacksnipe wrote: | Do you really think that the designers and frontend | engineers working on this would have been put to better | use working on capacity issues? | | If this makes more money than it cost, then what does it | matter? | jackson1442 wrote: | Nobody needed mobile phones, computers, or hacker news 70 | years ago either. | citizenkeen wrote: | Agreed, we should model our educational frameworks on the | way they did it in the 50s, when men were men and women | knew their place. | | We've learned nothing new about childhood development in | the last 70 years, pretending otherwise is a waste of | senior designer time. | kmeisthax wrote: | Oh right I forgot that emotions were invented by the woke | cancel mobs | hackish wrote: | Because we should, and we do, get smarter with every | generation. This Feelings Monster seems to focus on soft | skills and SEL. Still, your comments imply you may have | issues with advancing educational tools or with technology | companies investing in educational features over profits. | | Yes, learning arithmetic on chalkboards worked fine, but | should we stop improving our methods and tools because | we've already met some arbitrary bar of what you think was | once good enough? No, we should improve them by any measure | whenever we have the chance. | collegeburner wrote: | really? have our educational outcome metrics grown to | reflect that? why are we lagging so much further behind | other nations than we were at that time? | | yes, i have issues with companies investing in anything | over profits. that's generally how companies operate. | while i recognize there are those who disagree i think | charity belongs separately. | | and anyway character development is the purview of | parents not schools. public education should teach | specific academic material and nothing more. | jjulius wrote: | >and anyway character development is the purview of | parents not schools. public education should teach | specific academic material and nothing more. | | Public education needs tools. This is a tool. The article | literally calls it "a teacher's aid". ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-11-30 23:00 UTC)