The fact is that the catastrophe happens, no matter what. But there are people wanting to hide it for as long as possible, while others think that getting prepared because of solid information available beforehand makes some sense.

Climate change happens, and it is hanging fast, faster than ever in recorded geological times.

All's left to do is to answer three questions:

1. Do we want Climate change?
2. If no, do we want to do something about it?
3. Whatever the answers to the two questions above, who will foot the bill?

There are people wanting to dodge the questions, especially the third one by hand waving and mumbling something about economy, technological advance and the market forces. And there are people who want answers.

Liar or idiot. Take your pick. That person is not even smart enough to ask an Artificial Idiot about this.

No. Try that deranged statement in a courtroom some time.

That would require, you know, actual insight and maybe even experience! That is soooo 1990. Today we just make statements of fact with no clue what the facts are and how things actually work.

Yes. I am fortunate that I am doing academic teaching and doing in a dynamic field (IT security) so I can compensate for some things and select myself what I teach. But when I do a reasonable course, certainly not a great one and students tell me "most interesting course of the year", it becomes very clear that something is deeply wrong.

Indeed. Business people seeing a chance to get rich immediately lose all cognitive power to see reality.

Indeed. Common good vs. some assholes getting even richer. That said, there is an open Swiss model (Apertus) as well.

Is China really good at this or is Anthropic actually pretty pathetic?

My guess would be the latter, I may be wrong.

Being deeply stuck in the past is not something to be proud of.

I used to allow pocket calculators. You know what? They were a _detriment_ and made people slower. Sure, I only have entropy estimations and size estimations in there and I do not require an exact answer, but after I saw CS students struggle to do a binary log on a regular calculator, I have stopped allowing them.

Yes. I do not share the irrational fear of AC. I do note that the mobile ACs I have (redundancy is an engineering way-of-life) are currently all sold out. I got mine very cheap in the winter, dynamic pricing and foresight for the win.

What I do not have is an apartment where I can do a non-improvised installation. On the plus-side, because my apartment is minimum-energy, I can delay running AC by a few days when it starts to get hot and according to the usual estimates, the AC takes about half the energy it would on average for the apartment size.

No surprise. You probably had to find an intermediate bank that had some agreement with another bank in Europe. Although with Canada growing closer to Europe, that problem might go away in the future.

And what is "the mail"?

Seriously, last time I held a "check" was some 20 years ago and it was from an US organization. My local bank here (Europe) told me after some confusion that they had an expert that knew how to get these cashed and a partnership with an US bank. They did not even bother to charge extra for the work, because this apparently happened very rarely.

No. That function is not AI driven. But you can drive people into bankruptcy: https://genai.owasp.org/llmris...

Here is another well-kept secret: Grades _are_ always subjective. By unfair (but legally sound) correction, you can massively change grades. I have experimentally done it (not for actual grades but with actual exams) just to see how large my responsibility to be fair really is. It is huge. I now mix exams after correcting each question and I make sure not to look at the names, just to remain impartial and fair.

Incidentally, the same is possible for automatic grading. How? You have a look at the exercises. Then you can design questions so that some specific participants fail and others pass. This can also be done without really realizing it.

Hence grades are _already_ very subjective. There is no way around that. Fairness in tests is a complete illusion. The only fairness students can get is from an examiner that tries very hard to be fair and really looks at the person and whether they are fit to be in a field of study and whether they are "just barely", "solid average" or "very good". That is about how precise things really get, anything beyond that is an illusion.

Well, maybe. It really depends on how much the grades count. But yes, that is also a factor, agreed.