A school bus, with the red lights flashing, may NOT be passed on either side. This is to prevent children from being run over. Texas cops are quick to fine anyone who does, and it's hammered into your head in Drivers Ed.

In some states it's not a big deal, and so many of those people moved to Texas to get away from their states, only to turn Texas into what they hated. They don't learn.

That's the "routing problem" I mentioned.

Some times there aren't any marked crossings for half a mile. Perhaps this could be seen as a school-bus routing problem, but saying "use the crossing" is only reasonable sometimes.

I could see anti-authoritarianism. Most actual jews that I've met have been nice people. The government of Israel, however, is vile.

OTOH, I don't see any sane way to deal with the situation. The comment "surround the place with hazard tape and stay away" has a lot going for it.

That is likely not the fault of medical school, but the fault of society.

One of the problem with being in the top 1% intelligence is that you are constantly surrounded by IDIOTS.

Society needs a lot of educated people. If we limit 'the important work' to just the top 5%, then we will never have enough: Doctors, Judges, Lawyers, Engineers, Research Scientists, or Politicians. etc. So we have developed systems to let the top percentile (above average) people do work that we would much rather have the top 5% do.

Your surgeon for example, does not have to be a genius, he just needs to have steady hands and be taught what to cut. Yes, the guy inventing a mechanical heart needs to be in the top 5%, but the ER guy can just be above average.

Everybody wants their guy to be the best - but honestly you rarely need one.

P.S. Pray you are never the smartest guy around - it just means that you cannot ever ask anyone for help. They are all morons that have no idea what you are talking about.

A modern jet engine has parts made of steel that have to be grown from a single crystal. It is not enough to merely be martensite steel, the entire piece has to be one crystal. This techniques advanced techniques to create.

The jet engines reach 3,000 F (1700 C), which is way to hot for your run of the mill metal. The metal also needs special coatings.

I cannot imagine any serious manufacturer selling 3d printed parts for a jet engine without a thorough testing.

I bet this was someone saying , "eh, I can print that out for 1/10th the price they are selling it for".

You left out the robots. Enslaved to do what when the robots are cheaper?

Be careful there. Lots of AI is being put to silly, useless, or unreasonable uses. OTOH, lots of it is being put to extremely productive uses. (OK, 20% improvement in output, but also an increase in expenses.)

ISTM, that PART of the AI hoopla is a bubble. Possibly much more than half. But the other half is not a bubble, and is growing rapidly. What the collapse will look like depends in part on how much the productive segment grows relative to the other part before it happens.

It wasn't from "a random influencer". It was in a popular science publication, and I believe they were quoting (or perhaps paraphrasing) the person who invented the term.

Does it have a "legal definition"? I doubt it. So for regulations I think it means whatever the person enforcing the regulations wants it to mean.

... except instead of shoes becoming the only profitable product to manufacture, it's chatbots. Nobody knows why, but when it's all over, the only survivors will be those who evolved into computer-illiterate deaf-mutes.

A decade ago Doctors would google your issues. Now they use AI. I bet the AI does a better, quicker job. 20 years ago they would look it up in a medical text book.

Doctors are not memorization machines. Medical school doe snot teach them to memorize all the facts about diseases and the human body. Instead it teaches them how to ask the right questions. They need sources to ask those questions. The internet has those sources.

Yes, there are other sources - hence only 30% of the doctors use AI.

The key point is it is a doctor doing the research. You do not have the knowledge to judge the results the AI gives you, nor the knowledge to ask the right questions.

There is a huge difference between asking AI "What to do if your arm is broken." verus asking "How to tell the difference between a displaced fracture and a communituted fracture"

Agreed; but it is possible to make a Metro-sized car that is safe by modern standards and still gets 40+mpg. The Smart ForTwo and the Scion IQ are two examples.

Not entirely true about stability. Lots of corporations develop a network of big data that can be turned on or off depending on electrical situation.

Most AI can do this. The trick is to have the tech distributed around the world. If your English AI center is short of power, you can redirect the processing to your Japanese AI center, or the Chicago one, etc.

The extra 1 second before they deliver the photo realistic picture of a certain political leader in a pink princess dress you requested does not affect anything.

First, the UK has a major problem in that their only large metropolis is London. London is a huge city about the size of New York,just under 10 million people. The UK's next largest is Manchester, which is under 3 million. The UK got two more with more than 1 million, but that's it. Much of England is rural. With so much concentrated around London, power becomes a major issue.

Secondly, the grid is more of a problem than the power plants. In a large metropolis It is often easier to create a power plant on a set area than it is to send the electricity to the individual houses. The grid of transmission wires is usually near capacity on a city that is growing, so you need more power lines as well as more power plants.

Yes, but only because most Americans are unwilling to drive a Metro-sized car anymore. They've been conditioned to think small/lightweight cars are unsafe or unmanly or etc.