I've just gotten used to the "âoe" and "â" characters that crop up instead of quotes.

I just see those as quotes now. Kinda like reading matrix code.

This whole article is full of shallow and misguided thinking.

The reason employers are so keen on AI is because we are still in the midst of the hype bubble. We have already seen the appearance, and subsequent disappearance, of a whole lot of "prompt engineer" job openings. It is simply too early to predict the impact, and the statements made presently are fueled almost entirely by hype.

On the other hand, college degrees are losing relevance for some fields of knowledge work because the colleges have been watering-down the curriculum so grab up more of that student loan money. I have seen the trend specifically in Computer Science, where recent grads couldn't code their way out of a brown paper bag. I have heard that this applies to some other such fields as well. So there IS an issue here that may be motivating employers to care less, at least in some industries, that has nothing to do with AI.

I also have a hard time seeing a world in which practicing lawyers, doctors, certified accountants, etc., don't have formal educations (regardless of the state of AI).

Lastly, "AI Skills" are easy to obtain. Super-easy. Hell, AI can outright teach them to you. Anyone with a degree can easily learn AI skills. If these shake out to be mandatory (for practical reasons and not just hype) for future jobs, then everyone who already has degrees can easily skill up. There won't be some sort of generational gap full of old degree holders who can't learn anymore and can't get AI skills vs young people with no education past high school who have some sort of genius-level grasp of AI such that they can outperform all this educated, experienced, and accomplished talent that is already in the industry. That's just silly.

This is a dumb take.

Bobby has massive MAGA support and is very much in favor of healing uses of psychedelics.

You'd looking for enemies among your allies. That's a sure sign of media brainwashing.

Pharma is your enemy, not your neighbor.

> heart issues such as long QT syndrome

Wikipedia is wrong as usual.

Ibogaine is contraindicated for people with long QT-interval because it temporarily extends it.

This is fine for normal people but not if you already have long QT. It's not hard to see on EKG but some underground clinics don't do the EKG and there have been a few deaths.

There have been no deaths when medically supervised, which is why the Drug Control Act kills people.

> but that is as far as you can go in a 'free' society.

Right. That's why taxpayer-funded medical care is incompatible with a free society.

When I can't afford a healthier diet and a gym membership because I'm forced to subsidize others' rock climbing, dirtbike racing, rugby, and junk-food diets, we've totally gone over the cliff.

The whole thing becomes a positive-feedback loop until it detonates.

Spending 20% of GDP on sick-care with ever-worsening results should terrify any thinking person.

Everybody should be able to choose those things but their insurance premiums should reflect it.

Colleges used to be run by faculty, with administrators as their functionaries.

Now faculty are employees with little say in governance.

Obama's nationalization of student loans has increased the ratio of administrators by 10x by guaranteeing tuition without regard for value.

The faculty are outnumbered and outgunned.

The same thing happened to doctors and hospitals for the same reason and with the same enshittification.

It doesn't have to be this way.

The numbers weren't much better three years ago.

There is also the fact that we have had high interest rates for a long time now (in order to fight inflation), and that has motivated significant budget cuts, especially for exploratory development, which in turn has motivate significant reduction in headcount and a unwillingness to hire new talent.

AI is a tool. And like any tool its introduction creates proponents and enemies.

Some might say I'm a semi-professional writer. As in: I make money with things I write. From that perspective, I see both the AI slop and the benefits. I love that AI gives me an on-demand proof-reader. I don't expect it to be anywhere near a professional in that field. But if I want to quickly check a text I wrote for specific things, AI is great, because unlike me it hasn't been over that sentence 20 times already and still parses it completely.

As for AI writing - for the moment it's still pretty obvious, and it's mostly low-quality (unless some human has added their own editing).

The same way that the car, the computer, e-mail and thousands of other innovations have made some jobs obsolete, some jobs easier, and some jobs completely new, I don't see AI as a threat. And definitely not to my writing. Though good luck Amazon with the flood of AI-written garbage now clogging up your print-on-demand service.

> That being said, I wonder if paying for no ads includes no tracking across the internet, and no selling of the user's data. After all, the "if it's free you're the product" mantra doesn't (heh...shouldn't) apply any more.

Of course. Just trust the Zuckbot.

> Should anyone really care?

Their opinion pieces are purchased by the MIC, so maybe.

They must be afraid somebody is sniffing around in "their" physics.

We've had government physicists say plainly that MIC R&D has fundamental breakthroughs in topological physics that the public is not privy to.

JWST is discarding "established" cosmological physics theories by the week. This should be celebrated by scientists!

I recently listened to a retired Lockheed guy talking about light propagation theory and in that talk he noted that academic physicists strong resist learning that their "expertise" is in fact in error.

The implication was that non-academic physicists don't have that hangup and move faster.

The trick is the Chinese academic physicists don't have that problem either. The MIC should be terrified about what they have done with their anti-progress psyop. Maybe in 1970 when Chinese were eating salamanders and crickets this was a viable strategy but they failed to adapt to the times.

Right.

Yes, I guess it will. By hopefully making people switch away from YT music en mass.

> The services of a Nazi AI, owned by a Nazi broligarch, being sold to a Nazi government. Nepotism at its finest!

Tell us how you feel about assassinating Nazis.

> realized that this is the cheapest option.

It's cheaper if the financing an be achieved.

The capital costs for a retrofit are impossible for the 60% of this country who live paycheck-to-paycheck.

Then there's the matter of being responsible for your own energy system maintenance in the highly-distributed model (which is more resilient). Folks with ceiling bird aren't going to.

And of course I can design my own system but many need professional help and it's more difficult than plumbing or residential electric.

I'm slowly adding infrastructure and capacity but that also entails simultaneously paying for grid and offgrid investment which is beyond most.

The grid-scale projects really do mar the landscape and create vulnerabilities (e.g. hail) though the economies of scale are quite nice.

For $4 Aunt Gertrude can have it ask you why you don't call her anymore.