The real question is how good is your insurance when your child suffers third degree burns over 70% of their body and is the final cost worth it?

This is why tariffs on solar panels brought by both parties over the last two decades make no sense. If you actually want to preserve the environment, because it’s in national security interests as well as fucking common sense, then solar panels should be so cheap homeless people use perfectly good ones to sleep under because cardboard is too valuable. Domestic production was less than 1% at the time and now it’s about 1.8% with no possibility of actually competing because the vastly higher costs of domestic production make adoption financially unviable, meanwhile China is on goal to actually be renewable with almost twice the solar installed in may as the entire US last year because it’s cheap power. Instead of adding taxes to stop adoption, a trade war with no price floor would have been amazing and exactly what the world needed flooding the world with nearly free panels. China provided this and the money to keep domestic production afloat would have been trivial compared to the value of all that free power generation capacity, but the American people were taxed into not being able to take advantage so it’s the reverse of what you claim. The financial path was there but the American people were screwed out of cheaper energy by established interests looking to profit at the expense of everyone else.

Does it come back to your hand if you drop it?

Nothing says reliable like non-deterministic output.

But the planks, oakum, and rigging keep getting replaced by the masses as it’s sinking and burning, so is it really the same ship?

Also a way to circumvent separation of church and state.

Its like those state sponsored road side signs that were popular about 20 years ago that said “Keep your eyes on the road”. Sigh..

Given an error rate of 50%, and an inability to reason even the most basic things like simple addition or comparing two numbers and returning which is larger or smaller, they can’t be used for any informative purposes whatsoever. The only thing llm are fit for is taking an existing document template example, and filling it in with ever so slightly different information. Even then it requires a human to proof read. Things like coding are straight out the window, completely useless unless you already know how to do and fix everything, it that case it might speed you up slightly if it’s massive blunders don’t waste more time than it saves.

This is like saying home loans aren’t race based, but if your black you might not get the home you want. It’s still illegal for obvious reasons, it’s not a credit based system anymore with those caveats.

Colleges get plenty of money from students, the more students the more money. Sure, some things like private donations don’t scale with attendance but with more alums then it’s likely you will get more donations down the road. Some government funding, like for state run schools, actually do scale with attendance. So in short there is artificial scarcity because many of the top institutions aren’t actually merit based institutions where the best minds go to learn, it’s an old boys club that’s exclusive to keep out the wrong people and it’s more about how much your family donated than actual brains which goes against the principles DEI is supposed to stand for and what is being sold as the founding principle of their reputation even if they let in a couple of tokens to appease the masses.

In a zero sum scenario, where pretty much all schools have that policy, those students definitely do not receive as “good” an education because the schools with better funding and reputation become full. The system is no longer a merit based system, though with the nepotism and generational wealth dependence perhaps they never were, but it’s been sold as true.

Perhaps not in a pure capitalistic sense, but many countries not only have free student housing, but free college as well. Further, college costs tend to be higher and there isn’t the same incentive to keep costs down with unforgivable student loans so colleges can just build and build unnecessary things and keep getting students to pay. You do realize how limiting education with artificial scarcity or scarcity through incompetence is bad for everyone, right?

Yes because they quite literally are held down by their situation, instead of those who had every resource available and simply aren’t skilled and thus don’t deserve in a merit based system. But it’s also obvious they don’t perform as well as if they had resources from birth. LeBron would be amazing at basketball even if he was forced to not play or train till 18, I’m sure far outperforming the average person with that same history, but it’s obvious he wouldn’t be at the top of his game just as someone who was never properly educated because they didn’t have somewhere to sleep, or food to eat, or proper school supplies until college.

It’s easy to pull yourself up by your bootstraps when you can afford 5 thousand horsepower microturbine engines to fly your ass wherever you want to go.

This is actually far worse because younger people are turning over critical thinking to LLM and given the “hallucination” rate of around 50% on all models it’s shocking. A simple search for density between two materials using chatGPT correctly identified the approximate values but then went on to say the one with the larger volumetric density weighed less given the same shape, literally failing to identify which of two numbers was bigger. Or better yet, someone I know was told by chatGPT that pure elemental mercury was clear, and they doubled and tripled down on it being true because “AI is super intelligent”. I’ve seen people try to use them to win arguments or to under stand technical things but it fails repeatedly because it’s so wrong all the time and without old school knowledge and understanding it’s not even possible to see you’re falling into a trap. It was humorous at times for me but these models are useless and when you start trusting them it’s garbage in garbage out best case, with plenty of room to abuse users whose brains have been fried by under use and over confidence.

Except some minorities who are underrepresented get in with less academic merit and others who are over represented get denied with higher merit. There are two major flaws here; 1) education, even higher education, should not be a zero sum game where emphasis is on exclusion, alumnus donations/nepotism, and scarcity rather than inclusion, equal opportunity, and space for all. - 2) The root issue of inequality is never addressed but instead is simply pasted over as DEI like that fixes anything. It’s like a machine that mangles kids and DEI is a band aid, screw the band aid, shut the goddamn machine off! Why is there no off button?!?!! Without providing the social safety nets it goes beyond a level playing field, it permanently mangles potential. Take your most famous sports star, like LaBron for example. If you forced them to not exercise and veal calfed them from birth then suddenly at 18 with an atrophied body got him into college basketball it would be horrible. He would never be the person he is today, famous for spending his potential since a young age. It’s not fair to anyone, even “white males” because it’s like being told your future depended on sports performance so you practiced all childhood and when it comes time for your first big game the adults from your town brutalize the other team. Come game day it can’t even be properly played, several of the other team are dead. Now what? Yes, it’s obviously worse for the other team but merit is out the window and the future you worked for is trashed and it’s not even you who did it but a relic of the older generation being passed on. None of these kids by 18 have institutional control and thus responsibility for the situation.

depending on the viral load, more like a sure very very large fire way to prevent dangerous infections.