Are we talking abou the same person? Dr. Jonathan Haidt, NYU professor and acclaimed researcher? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Uh, you might want to check with Reality on that. Last I heard Grandpa is back on the front lines because most of the sons and grandsons are already dead. And that goes for both sides. Not exactly a good sign of being able to sustain this much longer.

As far as folding, this ain’t a card game. Death is the price paid. There won’t be many winners of this war no matter where blood lines end up drawn in the dirt.

Oh, you mean all that shit that was allowed to metastisize under the Dumb and Dumber DEI dementia regime for years?

Don’t dare ask yourself what created President Trump. Twice. You just might find the root cause and accountability you don’t CARE to admit or accept.

A wholly unqualified Biden started working for an energy company in one of the most corrupt countries on the planet.

Just a few years later, that same country would receive over one-hundred billion dollars in warmongering funds, provided by American taxpayers.

A now-infamous Bahamian crypto orgy fund was donating to the DNC considerable millions for the midterm elections in 2022. And we don’t have to wonder how easy it would be for an offshore crypto fund to manage funding transfers from American taxpayers via Ukraine.

You tell me if “siphon” is a strong enough word to describe that. Hunter Biden could start his own line of commercial smokers at this point. He’s already a world renowned artist.

Because not even the billionaires want to pay $200 for a fucking pizza. That’s why.

You’d think COVID would have made the problems of rapid unjustified inflation quite obvious. About 98% of the world still remembers pre-pandemic pricing. The only reasonable price tags that survived that were under the category of mass addiction. Go figure.

And I’ll believe that $100 GDP value as soon as the AI overlords agree that $300/hr is the standard corporate tax penalty for AI entities that replace human workers, with at least half that going towards funding UBI. Until then, it looks like pointless girl math that ignores every problem with rampant inflation taught in history class while ignoring the growing problem of AI driven unemployment.

So many questions, so many dollars.

And wham, pre-reviews show folding and creases, like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Thick and heavy for a phone, but if you want something that can be an actual tablet, you gotta make some serious trade-offs. When when using it as a phone OR tablet on a table, there is that bulge with the cameras so it can't sit flat. And that inner big screen is soft and scratch-prone. Hmm.

There are more than just pretty pictures on that page. It has letters too. Those letters make words. Those words make sentences. That means you read it, not gawk at it.

Qualified economist my ass, you obviously don't even understand the concept of money supply, or worse, you probably think that only relates to how much money is in circulation. More like simpleton economist in your case. In this context, demand only comes into play when there's a lack of it, which you could have actually inferred from the pretty pictures, combined with what anybody who has actually completed college would already know about college. Obviously, you're not one of them. Instead of doing a ctrl-f for "demand" (LOL) try another word. Hint: It starts with a B. Literacy helps too.

A lot more than you do.

Totally false -- we measure a lot more than that, such as outcomes, regional availability, time to care, and many more. But wait, what's that I hear about context again? Idiot.

>"In practice, it is seen more as an unwanted evil, like car crashes, than as bad choices that needs the attention of family members or mental health professionals."

What it needs to be is children not having unsupervised access to devices that have unrestricted internet access. Social media is certainly detrimental, but there are millions of other "dangerous to children" sites/apps, not to mention texting or media'ing to/from strangers. Children cannot comprehend or deal with the crap they read/see/hear on the Internet. In many, it can cause all kinds of agitation, addiction, bullying, psychoses, dysmorphia, depression, obsession, suicidality, etc.

Children do not need smart phones. If the parents want their children to have them, then the responsible thing is to lock them down with a very small whitelist of safe sites and apps, and call/text/media only to/from known contacts that the parent knows and approves. Same goes for tablets/laptops/desktops.

There is tons of good educational stuff available for devices without the risk of being brainwashed, picked on by other children, sucked into conspiracies, led down who-knows-what rabbit holes with hallucinating AI's, groomed by pedophiles, amplifying any stupid thing they might have ever written, lured into scams, thrust into adult concepts and conflicts, etc. It is hard being a minor, why would a parent want to make it 100 times worse? So it is convenient to shut them up? Because "all my friends do it"? Because it is cheap "entertainment"?

See the work of Jonathan Haidt. He ruled out latchkey and other alternative methods explantations ; it is the phones pure and simple.

Handing a child a machine that vends entertainment, porn, social media etc, and seeks every ounce of their attention surely will be fine, right?

Even though my child like list was minor in size, I thought it was sufficient to identify exactly who “they” is. It would be the actual children we call minor children for too many a valid reason to list.

No. The disturbing part is watching you turn my simple common sense reasoning into some unjust “racist” argument. My first statement stands. You wonder why people question who’s running the asylum.

Ever wonder what’s next in the devolution? All it will take is a 5,000-strong mass suicide event triggered by ChatGPT to..to..what? Get lawmakers to maybe think about funding a survey to study the risks of studying social media? Not hard to read the greasy palms of Greed. Getting harder to understand why Freedom feels it needs to devolve into Freeing Dumb and let it roam the streets as a teacher, because children demanded it.

Not sure why we’re not demanding a psychological evaluation for every human that can engage with Future AI that will make current brainwashing tactics look like a Taco Bell commercial streamed to a drunken frat house at midnight. My drivers license analogy stands too. There’s a difference between Freedom and privilege. By the time humans need AI to survive and justify it as some kind of ordained Freedom, Skynet will have already determined our deserved fate.

Dare to ask; Is the goal of AI education, or addiction? Social media turned humans into anything but social.

Remember when suggestions like this were more often received as sound wisdom gathered through decades of life experience instead of going viral as a shitty “racist” comment from some CIS-gendered..well you get the point from Gen Victim professionally trained to broadcast abuses for gig profit.

There are those that would argue the American higher education system is doing just fine, and in no way needs help from AI. Unfortunately those are the same professors who tuned the American college campus into an overpriced political indoctrination camp for grown-ass child refugees escaping reality for four more years while bending over and learning about com-pound-ing interest loans the fucking hard way financing a Phi Drinka La-Tay-All-Day addiction, living on a palatial campus that wears no less than 37 popular fashion and food brands of flair.

Sadly, it’s bad enough to actually question how AI could make it worse. Because we know how the status quo certainly has.

Learning proper financial management living in America is becoming as necessary as learning Brazilian Ju-Jitsu in MMA. You won’t last long without it, and yet the American education system doesn’t dare prioritize making our citizens fiscally wise. Perhaps we should start asking why until they run out of excuses. A college graduate could find a way to make a million dollars a day in America. America wields the power to take ten times that in an hour if you’re dumb enough to fall for it. And most are. By design.

When keeping your money becomes harder than making it in America, it tends to shine the spotlight on a cancerous problem metastasized by Greed. Children can be taught how a $50 minimum wage isn’t the answer instead of being brainwashed into fighting for it.

Leaning into LLM's brain-smoothing process (please stop calling it AI, it's not intelligent) is just a final act of desperation by overpriced, outmoded forms of education. Hoping that the LLM monster eats higher education last if it plays along is a horrible idea.
 
Instead, they should be doubling down on teaching the socratic method, critical thinking and real curiosity - stuff that LLMs will never do. The schools that do this will thrive by swimming against this idiotic tide.

It's been, what, a week, and they got 6000 jets through maintenance during a very busy holiday travel season?

That speaks to fantastic logistics. There are anonymous folks out there who did a great job and deserve a ridiculously generous Christmas Bonus. :gallant bow:

Try and remember why we don’t let the actual crazies run the asylum for staters.

We can dictate a written test to receive license to drive a car, but we seem to overlook ANY similar control we could possibly require for using an LLM? Just how easy is it for a certified mental case to get a drivers license anyway?

Don't let them vote. Don’t let them buy porn. Don’t let them enter into contracts. Don’t let them own land. Don't let them own guns. But by all means don’t dare limit their access to mind-warping LLM influence only a CIA black site interrogator could love, because profit? Make it fucking make sense. Sometimes we DO actually need to think of the undeveloped minds we call children for a reason.