Who gets to decide what's worthless?

Statistics do....

We track what jobs earn what...how many people get accepted in to what jobs on graduation....so, we only offer student loans to degrees that give the student the absolute highest chance of getting a good paying job, one what will allow them to pay off the loans in a reasonable manner.

I think you're absolutely right. I also think it's a contagion, with corrupt "news" sources - including social media - being the primary disease vector.

Shocked, I tell you! I keep thinking this whole AI thing must be modeled on a pump 'n' dump scheme.

How about "Take the guns first, go through due process second" from Donald Trump. Also not previous typically a Republican position (except when the Black Panthers emerged, I suppose).

How is it that these supposed captains of commerce can be so thin-skinned? For people who pride themselves on being tough they sure do a lot of punching down from their lofty perches! And they're too clueless - even in a PR sense - to realize that shit like this does their rep more harm than any third-party criticism could.

Additionally, if your enterprise is so fucking vulnerable to criticism then maybe you should, you know, put some money and effort into making it better, instead of trying to silence the critics.

I am getting so sick of vicious, anti-social fucktards like these. It's said that "cream and bastards rise"; I'm seeing lots of bastards these days, but precious little cream ...

From what I understand of the guy I'm not a fan and likely would like to see him nailed.

However, in this case...I don't think the govt has a case against him.

If they never got into the phone, how do they know there was evidence on there? How could they proved he wiped evidence if they had no clue what might be on there?

It also sounds like at the time, he wasn't under arrest? He had asked for a lawyer and had been refused?

He's not under any compulsion to give a password is he? They had the phone, nothing forced the authorities to trust anything he said....they could have tried forensics like they'd do if they had a safe and tried a safecracker to get in if the suspect didn't want to give the combination.

I just don't see the case they have....or if they do it has implications far wider for common citizens and their privacy.

You think only people that make millions pay back student loans?

No, please be serious.

BUT...we do have an incredible number of students that can NOT pay off their loans...hence all this call to have the US Tax payers pay their loans for them ie. loan forgiveness.

We need to quit giving out student loans and scholarships to people seeking worthless degrees....where these kids get into significant debt for fields that lead to jobs that do not pay enough for them to get that loan paid off....basically they become indentured servants for much of their adult life in a manner of speaking.

Let's met out student loans only to those pursuing degrees that are in fields that at least give them a fighting chance to earn enough money upon graduation and actually secure good jobs.

If you want to study underwater basket weaving, then find, do it on your own dollar, but no loaning of money to take worthless classes that do not need to meaningful jobs that earn $$ enough to pay the loans off AND lead to a happy level of livelihood and lifestyle.

Only joke on the rich target? But I was looking for something in the "What could possibly go wrong?" genre.

Sounds like an insane mis-feature along the path to project death by feeping creaturitis. I'm trying to imagine why such a capability would exist.

Excess imagination on my part, but here's my idea for a solution using this mis-feature (thereby possibly justifying its existence). First some background: I've made a number of attempts to use Claude (and other AIs) for programming tasks. The early attempts were a while back and failed miserably, but a friend provoked me into trying again recently and it went quite well. Much to my surprise. Managed to completely second-system a PERL monster into JavaScript with much less of my time and effort. (Actually it was more like a fourth or sixth round on the application (in various languages), but just ancient history behind my first attempt to act as a project manager.)

However I got worried about the tokens consumed so I took the project to a new instance of Claude, and this "new it-guy" was terrible. Lousy communicator and sloppy programmer. Eventually managed to fix its mistakes but not at all confident it hasn't buried some other bugs more deeply into the code... My conclusion is that there are some implicit "personality" variables and the first "it-guy" had better values that were not transmitted in the handoff document. The document looked fine to me, and seemed to cover all the main points, but I didn't know what to look for as regards "training" its replacement's "personality".

Which leads back to this story about shared interactions. Now I'm imaging studying other people's dialogs with Claude in search of the implicit personality variables and how to set them properly. Not going to do it. Insufficient motivation on my part, but if I was a manager of project managers (or higher and even more distant from the trenches), then I think it might be helpful. Dare I say PROFIT? (My theory is that the variables are implicit and have high dimensionality, because if they were explicit and easily described then the "good" Claude would have included them in the handoff document.)

You think influencers don't make money? Why do you imagine people keep doing it?

Sure I do....just like some people become multi-million dollar NBA basketball players, or earn millions doing Only Fans.

I believe that % of people after that goal that attain it are incredibly small.

Again, not massive enough success to risk hundreds of thousands of dollars in student loan debt they'll likely never pay off...

It's fair to say that small models are far less useful than large ones. They have some use, but ultimately are unsuitable for many tasks.

When you say "small models"....what size range are you talking about that you tested?

Well one thing that Apple is showing with their M chips....is that the shared memory structure is VERY capable of allowing individuals to run pretty large local models.....bypassing the need for most people to pay for Frontier model access on the clouds.

This also allows people to keep more privacy options as that their data needn't leave their private hardware at home.

I think growth in this area may lead to part of a bubble crash of the larger AI landscape.

This is already in the hands of of knowledgeable tinkerers....it won't be long till it is a click install app for the masses that have the hardware and Apple is already making that at prices MUCH less than buying NVIDA GPUs and windows.....

I don't know if this was by design or happy accident for Apple, but they got the leap on everyone with this.....we're just now seeing competitors come out with small AI designed boxes with this type of shared memory structure set up.

Are you saying gender isn't real?

I believe we have a LONG established class on this....Biology.

You really can't see why studying human social behavior and history could help in a job where you're dealing with the general public?

I don't see where "Gender Studies" would apply to any job really....no.

Either way, this "degree" in influencer...sounds like another one of those degrees that combined with a $1.50 will get you a cup of coffee (7-11 not Starbucks)....

I really hope to God there's no scholarships or Federal student loan money for this drivel.

I"m not against it being offered...hell, anyone should be able to study anything but stuff like this needs to be on their own dollar.

Let's tie Student Loans and such to degrees that actually stand a realistic chance for the masses studying it to EARN money after college with said degree.

Let's stop enabling kids to take on crippling loans to study things that don't give them a chance in hell of earning a living high enough to ever pay the fucking loan off, eh?