If something is impossible to turn off, it's most likely not good
This is a chat bot that answers questions about books.
Turning it off is merely not using it.
A better example of what you're complaining about is Google's AI shitpost at the top of every query.
This isn't it.
Frankly, this kind of thing is going to have huge adoption. It's precisely the kind of shit that people are using AI for right now.
because the AI has to READ the book
You're going to have to decide if AI has agency, or is just a tool used by a person. You can't have it both ways.
Your initial claim was "And overall if a goodly chunk of your college students are engaged in programs that are seemingly focused on deconstructing society at it's most fundamental levels, how are you going to compete with automatons?"
I never claimed STEM was the majority but I also had a supposition that social sciences sure as well aren't either. so while we may have both been talking out our butts I wasn't using my ass-extracted point as a launching board to gripe about culture war nonsense.
But hey, good luck maintaining a technocratic liberal democratic society without any of the "emotional DEI deconstructionists"
I certainly can't fault anyone for taking that outlook
For me I take the Frank Constanza stance: "I got a lot of problems with you people and now you're gonna hear about it!"
Of 18 total appearances by Republican officials, eight were coded as anti-Trump. Of 24 total appearances by Democratic officials, none were pro-Trump.
Just be honest. You don't think it's a jobs program for Democrats (since the articles says nothing to that effect).
You're just pissed off that they don't limit their Republican representation to pro-Trumpers.
You seem to be confusing "wanting to get rid of communists" with "wanting their countries to be poor and dangerous".
Wow, I had no idea you were dumb enough to fall for the Red Scare.
True but for many you don't know you can't hack it until you try. It's a natural transition point; can't handle the math for engineering? Become a CNC machine operator
I work in audio visual, we are always, always, always short up for skilled people and it's a very STEM adjacent area.
If you want to use David Zaslav as the arbiter of quality children's programming you go right ahead.
Adjusted for inflation, the federal government simply spend less on education than we used to (ref1). And that doesn't even account for the fact that the population has grown.
Not that per student spending is the only or best metric to measure education. You could look at college graduation rates, in 1980 it's 16.2% and by 2020 it's 37.5%, so by that metric we're doing very well. (sorry, Statisa won't provide me the source unless I pay the money. I had a hard time finding the 1980 graduation rates)
Looking at the statistic of "Attained Tertiary Education" on wikipedia, which convenient has linked reference.
USA 43.1% (ref2)
China 16.1% (ref3)
From that point of view, the USA is winning. Right?
Not really, it's also a bad metric (I chose it intentionally). Take into account China's long-term strategy, which is no open secret. We saw a dramatic increase in the influx of Chinese students into American Universities, becoming the dominate source of international students for US schools. And now we see their numbers going back down, after Chinese Universities were built and expanded over the years. We would of course expect a shift, with cheaper and improved schools in China reducing the number of foreign students applying to US schools.
Long-term what does this even mean?
It means China has a plan and they have been executing on that plan for decades.
What's the US's plan?
*ref1: Education Spending Declined During 80’s, Report Says
*ref2: S1501 - Educational Attainment
*ref3: 4-4 Population aged 25 and over by region, sex, and educational attainment
If PBS stopped making that content, perhaps local public broadcasters could make higher quality content on the same subjects with a lower budget.
Welcome to making science content for the masses and all ages, you do have to simplify things a bit.
I don't think it was PBS that was stopping local broadcasters from doing that up to this point, PBS exists because most places do not in fact produce such content given their own initiatives. Video production is more accessible today than anytime in history, nothing was stopping this.
STEM students who can't hack it should be shuffled to the trades.
"I'm a mean green mother from outer space" -- Audrey II, The Little Shop of Horrors
