I agree with you that education is not primarily workforce training. I just included that note as a bit of context because it definitely made me chuckle to see these two posts right together, each painting a completely different picture of AI: “so important you must embrace it or you will die” versus “what the hell is this shit keep it away from children.”

I fall in between somewhere. We should be very cautious with AI and judicious in its use.

I just think that “cautious and judicious” means having it in schools - not keeping it out of schools. Toddler daycares should be angelic safe spaces where kids are utterly protected. Schools should actually have challenging material that demands critical thinking.

I collect urine for my compost pile and I add some vinegar to the empty jug first because it helps stabilize the urine and keep less of it from transforming into ammonia. Ammonia is volatile, meaning it evaporates rapidly, which is why you smell it. In compost this also means nitrogen is leaving the system, which you don’t want. Vinegar liquid might be awkward to add to your cat box but there is also vinegar powder.

It did that, but we had an overly rosy view of what “democratize” meant. We thought that citizen journalists would leaven the bulky corporate media of the time. And they did. But there was also a torrent of bullshit. We have no excuse for not seeing this. The Greeks and Romans spent a great deal of thought on what would happen if the rabble were given a voice. We dismissed their ideas as gatekeeping oligarchy, but it turns out that populism is moatly a dirty word.

When the first dotcom bubble burst, I predicted that big companies would buy up all the major websites for fire sale prices and put them behind subscription paywalls. “Pay $30/month and get access to all 400 sites in the Yahoo network.”

I underestimated how easy it is to spin up alternative sites. Most of the media brands I thought of as valuable then are shit now, or gone.

And, like everyone, I didn’t anticipate social media. Even Google was still nascent at the time.

US streets aren’t always great but what’s up with all these open trenches right in the middle of the roads in this video??

Automated cargo delivery is going to bring a new era of piracy. When you can easily trick the vehicle and there are no people in it, it becomes much more tempting to just knock it over and steal what’s inside.

The best AI tools will also cite references, like Wikipedia, so you can click all the way through.

We need to be able to distinguish between giving kids a chance to learn how to use AI, and replacing their whole education with AI.

Right under this story in my feed is the one about the CEO who fired 80% of his staff because they didn’t switch over to AI fast enough. That’s the world these kids are being prepared for.

I would rather they get some exposure to AI in the classroom where a teacher can be present and do some contextualizing. Kids are going to find AI either way. My kids have gotten reasonable contextualizing of other things at school, like not to trust Google blindly and not to cite Wikipedia as a source. Schools aren’t always great with new technology but they aren’t always terrible either. My kids school seems to take a very cautious approach with technology and mostly teach literacy and critical thinking about it. They aren’t throwing out textbooks, shoving AI at kids and calling it learning.

This is an alarmist post. AIs benefits to education are far from proven. But it’s definitely high time for kids everyone to get some education about it at least.

It reads like “legit” is being used as “real, actual,” which in this case wasn’t a great choice since the charges are completely… ah… Trumped-up.

Haven’t touched that pile of shit in years.

Do you know of any data about outcomes specifically for Americans with insurance? People without any coverage avoid getting care and that of course leads to terrible outcomes. I’m wondering how much that is factored in. It’s terrible either way: a healthcare system that leaves people out is not a healthcare system.

We killed a lot of people to ensure that oil is bought and sold with dollars around the world. No way we’re going to let that currency crutch just go away.

It’s great news regardless but I don’t know why they feel the need to over-attribute this to EVs. It’s not like the majority of the population in Beijing ever drove cars. Regulations on heavy industry are briefly glossed over 10 paragraphs down so they can go back to glowing about EVs. But my impression after visiting Beijing was that a lot of the smog came from people relying on coal cakes for everyday cooking and heating.

There’s no way this was Cloudflare taking a stand for liberty and free speech. They are simply choosing to obey one less regulation. Less for them to do. Less to be accountable for. Less to special-case for one country.

These corporations hate being regulated - it could be by a direct popular ballot, not politicians, and they would still resist. Let’s not mistake corporate obstructionism for libertarianism.

That’s moderation. When there’s a law against it, that’s censorship.

Frankly a couple of countries have passed laws against Nazi speech and paraphernalia, and after the Nazis plunged the world into the biggest war of all time and murdered 12 million people for their racist ideology, I’m cool with that. If that’s the bar: I can live with it. Murder 12 million, your little club no longer gets to meet.

There have always been rational limits on speech.

I was so disgusted by the Iraq invasion as a response to 9/11 that I felt sure the patriotic thing to do was get Halliburton out of the White House. But they managed to scare up all that WMD noise and then they invented “swift boating.” All this after they literally stole the 2000 election.

I know what you mean though. And it was all extremely stupid. Hillary helped, which is why I never supported her.

I am probably just older than you but this hit me big in 2004. I was like “oh… you want more of this? What the fuck…”

I agree. I share my use cases mostly to put the critical thinking behind them on display. I’m sure the crowd here is very savvy. But in the general public I agree that many if not most people would be completely seduced by the obsequious & confident tone of the robot. It can do so many things that it becomes tempting to rely on it. You wish it worked better than it did, and if you let yourself get lazy, you can easily slip into trusting it too much.

I can’t believe my fellow Americans who are so worried about how much a real healthcare system would cost when we are getting crushed under the most expensive fucking system in the world. It’s like they take all the current price tags from our corrupt, bullshit system that doesn’t serve everyone and apply them to the whole population, completely ignoring the price negotiation power of single-payer and all the gouging and waste we get from the corporations.

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