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Comment Re:Ideal and reality unfortunately don't overlap (Score 1) 77

The problem is that AI has made it very obvious that teachers have not been doing their jobs.

For instance: one history test, one report. Two different responses: "Contrast the political sentiments at the time of the American Revolution with modern day American sentiments and political events." 1 page report.

You could just paste that into chat and get a useable if not undetectable result. The result is obvious. Instead, a curious student could use the tool to pose a more complete question to chat: take into mind more emotional similarities between different political factions, as well as the contrast amongst social classes. It'll help them stand out a bit and it'll be different, and they might learn something.

But, I do note: this would require a curious student. Teachers have all but punished curiosity and a love for education for decades, catering to the dumb ones to keep them engaged instead of punishing them for wanting to be dumb.

Comment Dumbest thing ever (Score 1) 77

That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

AI has only accelerated my desire for learning. I can learn so much more (though perhaps not as thoroughly or as deeply, because you don't have to go below the architectural surface as much anymore) now than I could before: much less switching between tabs, copy/pasta'ing, digging for documentation (and reading a lot of things that I don't remember 3 seconds later because I'm looking for something specific).

The same goes for reading about history, or anything else. Curiosity is rewarded rapidly with AI.

No, the biggest problem with education in the schools is the schools and how they teach. They've made it un-interesting and curiosity is generally punished. They have completely destroyed education long before AI was even a question - I'd argue shortly after the Internet became available and approachable for your typical 100-IQ public school teacher, in the late 90s.

Comment Re:Does it (Score 1) 57

Yeah, I bought the Airtags because my girlfriend keeps losing her keys, so when she was in another city recently she emailed me to ask why something was beeping in her bag, which is when we found out that Airtags have this retarded 'feature'.

I didn't know this beforehand because until now I've been using cheap Chinese clones off Amazon which don't. So you can either pay $5 for a Chinese "AyrTag' which doesn't do this or $40 for an Apple AirTag which does.

It's retarded and it doesn't work because anyone can buy compatible devices off Amazon for less money if they want to stalk someone.

Comment Re:Just... wow (Score 1) 118

"3 dimensional thinking and problem solving is something you can learn to be good at"

It really isn't, not to a meaningful degree. You can sharpen cast iron, too, but that doesn't mean you'll have a sharp knife.

Spatial thinking (which is heavily linked to problem solving) is fairly tightly coupled to inborn intellect and early education capability attainment.

Comment Does it (Score 2) 57

Do that retarded thing Airtags do where they start beeping if they don't see your phone for a while? Half the point of these things is to track stuff if it's stolen, which is completely invalidated if they start beeping so the thief knows where they are.

Comment Re:We are also paying the Germans 1.2 billion (Score -1, Troll) 138

You merely reiterate why no-one tales the left seriously any more.

The left: "Industry kills wildlife and creates waste! We must destroy it!"
Also the left: "So what if windmills kill birds and create waste? When did you ever complain about that before?"

The modern left exists to funnel billions and billions of dollars from taxpayers to billionaire oligarchs. If the left didn't exist, oligarchs would have had to create it.

Oh, wait...

Comment Re:oops (Score 2) 81

It's hardly the only motivation. Many of them are death cultists who hate humans and want us all dead. Or technocrats who believe they're going to become gods... and want the rest of us dead.

It's inevitable that there will be more outbreaks of genetically-engineered disease in the future, and the kind of people with the wealth to create these kind of AI models are the last kind of people who should be allowed to use them for making new diseases.

Comment Re:Dumb (Score 0) 133

"Normal" meaning what would be a normalized average of other countries. The typical US national park is bigger than all but the biggest parks throughout Europe. They're absent even fire trails throughout most of them, and they do not have nearby civilian residences for wanderers to happen upon.

Larger parks are closer to what would be considered "remote wilderness" in the furthest extents of Asia. You've got some of these places just hours from our biggest metropolitan cities.

Really, the only places in the world which compare would be China and Russia, and large parts of South America. But in most cases those are actually wilderness, all but inaccessible.

Comment Re:Meaningless statements (Score 1) 219

He isn't even an expert. He's a hype man, a salesman.

Frankly, he's engaging in a zero sum fallacy. Because it's not perfect, it can't be done. But it quite clearly has been done, successfully, with a drastic reduction in fatalities and injury. Is it perfect? No. But it's better than anything Waymo has been able to achieve with fancy intrusive useless sensors (there's nothing quite as infuriating as getting in a Waymo and having it just sit there confused about the homeless guy standing on the curb), but it's made by Waymo's biggest potential competitor - Tesla.

You forget that Tesla's now got a (small) working Tesla robotaxi fleet, and their capabilities are far superior to what Waymo offers.

Comment Re:Meaningless statements? (Score 1) 219

That isn't half of it.

How many people in the audience own a Tesla?

He's talking to people who, if they are not personally intimate with fully self-driving capabilities in a Tesla, are at least aware of the capability.

It's like Steve Jobs going to Xerox to give a talk about why mice are superior input devices for navigation over just a keyboard.

Comment Re:Dumb (Score 1) 133

a) and yet, nobody pays for anything in these situations, usually. Healthcare picks it up. The price is inflated specifically because of socialized services: what's about $10k in operational cost ends up with a bill for $50k because of collusion in the subsidized healthcare environment.
b) and? We need people to fail to be guidestones for the others.
c) then the fee would be significantly higher.
c1) "normal countries" do not have parks like in America.
c2) no, they are not.

These kids compounded stupid decisions. Instead of sitting and waiting and giving their water to someone else to go get help, they went ahead recklessly. It's also an exceptional situation. You don't design your entire system around the exception.

Comment Re:Dumb (Score 1) 133

The sick thing is, this is probably the first time most of those kids have ever really been outdoors on their own. They did this, in all likelihood, without any parental involvement, oversight, or inform.

Anyone who's spent more than an a couple hours hiking outdoors would be able to tell you that an 18 mile, 6k elevation hike is a 2 day backpacking trip for people in good shape. lol

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