People have been losing their mind since the world began. They used to blame video games, or heavy metal music, or whatever new thing.

No accountability today. It's a genuine tragedy, but that kid was crazy long before he started talking to Chat GPT.

My theory about why KK didn't get axed earlier is this.

George Lucas, in fear that Disney would bastardize his baby, engineered a secret clause into the sale of Lucasfilm that made it difficult or impossible to get rid of KK. He did this with the best of intentions, not knowing what kind of commercial and creative disaster she would be. That clause is the thing that has protected her all these years.

There's an old observation that people go to university for lots of different reasons. It used to be that wealthy people went there just so they could have good conversations with each other (kind of a prestige thing).

It's popular now to think of the university system as a job training, And it's kind of so-so at that depending upon what you do and how you use it.

As for the garbage they cram in your head as you pass through the mandatory schooling in the USA and other developed nations? I'm kind of glad that the goal isn't to produce worker drones who are ready to step into the factory and just do their job. But I do think they teach us some stuff that's probably a waste of time.

Hah! You think the job of the guy running the business is to "create jobs"?

Let's explore that. Suppose that you're right and that the job of Microsoft is to "create jobs". Does that mean it's the consumer's job to "Buy Microsoft"? What if Microsoft is not worth the money? Do you still have to buy their products? What if an employee is not worth the money? Do we still have to give them a job?

Does my need constitute your obligation?

They make it sound like it's a very generic question, should all students go to college? You gotta break it down.

- Should a dumb person go to college? Maybe they will pay money but never graduate.
- Should a person go to college for a non-viable degree? Maybe they will pay but not get a job using that degree.
- Should a person who wants to work in engineering get an engineering degree?

See how there isn't one generic answer?

My day is just getting started, but this is the dumbest one I've heard today. There's a lot of competition in credit card rates and a lot of alternatives to getting loans for all kinds of people. This won't do what they think it will do. It will either create the rise in additional fees or discourage credit card companies from providing credit to low-income/higher-risk borrowers. It is not going to result in them cutting their profits.

Is wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.

Film at 11.

"Earth can support a finite number of human beings." You think the repeatedly discredited Malthusian assumption and a vague feeling that someday, somehow we'll run out of resources should be a guide for decisions? Here's a fun one. My childhood science textbooks said the world would run out of oil by the year 2000. Several things made that extrapolation nonsense the most powerful of which is likely to be the decreasing relevance of oil as an energy source. Lots of people turn that into a happy parable about human ingenuity. I think it's more a parable about the crappy quality of human predictions about distant-future outcomes in complex systems. I guess you can't stop making predictions but for goodness sake, we must have humility about our ability to know what the future holds.

These companies only need to stall for long enough for fully automated "taxis" to get in place, a couple more years. Then these drivers will feel the power of this fully operational death star! You don't have to negotiate wages with a robot.