I work in large-scale education and it was the same thing there at IBM Watson Education - If you imagine a subject - lets just take Volcanoes, shall we:
Volcano content - pics, videos, textbooks, lectures, stuff - how do you get it and manage it?
Volcano supplementary content - hints, tricks, questions, mutliple-choice answers, free-text answer assessment, volcano dialogue
Volcano curriculum map - links to lvl2 Volcano content
Volcano state-approved-assessment - did they get a C or an A?
So you talk to the reps and they say "revolutionize education!" and "AI can automatically test and track and teach!" and "partnership with CMU or whoever"
Cool - Can you teach Volcano?
No, not yet, but if you work with us...
Cool - Can you teach ANYTHING?
We can teach [small sample project which looks suspiciously like a textbook with quiz questions at the back of the chapter].
Cool - let me know when you are using that AI or whatever.
5 years later - Y'all doing the AI Education Watson IBM Revolutionize thing yet? No? Cool. I don't know how the fuck you get paid, but its a good job if you can get it I guess.
> I just want this stupidity to stop before my kids grow up.
Why? The rules changed. Just play by the new rules.
Do a small portion of men get all the dating-app women? Easy enough - be in that category; be a fit/6pack guy with a job and interesting interests who is mysterious enough not to share many personal details.
Are some women excluded because they expect men to ask them out? Easy enough - be more assertive in person. Go to places where (quality) men are and aggressively indicate interest. They left the bar - but they are still at the golf course and on campus.
A woman I know (black, educated, 24+, generally the least desirable dating-app category) has *never* been asked out in her entire life, nor had she asked a guy out. Two immediate observations:
1 - First guy has a 100% chance of acceptance.
2 - She should ask guys out. This had, unbelievably, not occurred to her.
Seriously - just play by the new rules.
This. The TVs spy on you nowadays and then offer various services. Easy solution - Chromecast/FireStick for $20, never connect TV to internet, buy basically "its a screen, lol no sound, no features." I've got my 2011 OLED model and its working just fine.
The word you are looking for is "Marketing".
Kinda disappointed that they didn't bother to cite UCLA researcher Ron Stevens who did this 20 years ago and has maintained an active lab doing so for the last 20 years...
Top contender I've seen so far.
Also - points for "the sleep of the Just". Something I haven't heard in a long time - but think about constantly. "Did I leave it on the field?" "Did I give what I have?"
Honestly, I think it's like lifting weights. You pick up things a little heavier all the time and then someone comes by and said "oh I could never pick up a weight that heavy". It's like... neither could I... AT FIRST. My old boss put in 80 hours/week of scientific cognitive work. Every. Fucking. Week. Amazing, honestly.
However, like, I think I'll be able to do that in another 10 years.
There a bunch of teens who basically never did the Highschool+job thing looking at a 40 hour week like it's 30% more than the output to which they are accustomed. Meanwhile, theres a bunch of people 10 years on the job looking at 40 hours/week like it's a vacation.
Reminds me of the old Ziglar quote:
"You know what's worse than training your workforce and having them leave? Not training them and having them stay."
"I'm sure there's benefit for Amazon somewhere in here" lol. Yea - there is benefit to training your workforce... it is pretty directly "a trained workforce". I bet that some of those workers look up the Amazon hierarchy at the people making double their salary and say "I dunno, maybe I'll major in that."
I did fulltime/parttime combo school/work for BS/MS/PhD. My guidance counselor also said it couldn't be done. I kinda stopped believing them after the BS, lol. I'm sure they still work there. I'm sure that "your experience was not typical".
Those clauses always have a "or you owe us the money" clause, which is usually relatively easy to negotiate with the new employer as a "signing bonus"; after all, they are paying for the degree you completed - unlike your current employer which paid tuition for a degree you *might* complete.
Clearly we can.
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
