What I wonder about the group project teammates: What were they doing with their time, instead of contributing to the ML project? When a person “doesn’t put in the effort” on one project, there’s something else they are doing — whether that’s hanging out and flirting with one another; or doing work for a different course; or planning their goat-yoga startup; or just watching agog as the the high-performer breezes through everything, and hoping to learn by exposure.
Those people have some priorities, and they’re doing something (even if it’s napping). If a person came to college for four years of easy dating and a degree, with an eye toward future marital and job prospects, that’s a goal. “Not putting in the effort” is not a goal, though.
Which is to say: I’m guessing that what it’s like to be these people is probably not about “being a person who puts in low effort on ML projects”. There’s something else they are doing, that they are caring about. Empathizing would be connecting to that, not to the “low effort on ML projects” judgment.
This actually doesn’t have to be the case. I had a similar ML project experience, and the issue is the other guy didn’t have the same “figure things out” ethic as me. My best model of their mentality is that things happened to them, rather than they had the ability to do things. If they couldn’t passively soak up knowledge, or passively type in the right words to an LLM to get the right code outputted, they didn’t really know how to go and figure that out. They spent about as much time as me on the project, but their contribution was probably negative because they kept interrupting my work to ask me questions. I don’t think the issue was different priorities, just a different perspective on the world. Their perspective is probably better (healthier, happier) in situations of abundance, but not when you have to get things done or starve (or get a bad grade).
What I wonder about the group project teammates: What were they doing with their time, instead of contributing to the ML project? When a person “doesn’t put in the effort” on one project, there’s something else they are doing — whether that’s hanging out and flirting with one another; or doing work for a different course; or planning their goat-yoga startup; or just watching agog as the the high-performer breezes through everything, and hoping to learn by exposure.
Those people have some priorities, and they’re doing something (even if it’s napping). If a person came to college for four years of easy dating and a degree, with an eye toward future marital and job prospects, that’s a goal. “Not putting in the effort” is not a goal, though.
Which is to say: I’m guessing that what it’s like to be these people is probably not about “being a person who puts in low effort on ML projects”. There’s something else they are doing, that they are caring about. Empathizing would be connecting to that, not to the “low effort on ML projects” judgment.
This actually doesn’t have to be the case. I had a similar ML project experience, and the issue is the other guy didn’t have the same “figure things out” ethic as me. My best model of their mentality is that things happened to them, rather than they had the ability to do things. If they couldn’t passively soak up knowledge, or passively type in the right words to an LLM to get the right code outputted, they didn’t really know how to go and figure that out. They spent about as much time as me on the project, but their contribution was probably negative because they kept interrupting my work to ask me questions. I don’t think the issue was different priorities, just a different perspective on the world. Their perspective is probably better (healthier, happier) in situations of abundance, but not when you have to get things done or starve (or get a bad grade).