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Comment Blaming Meta is like... (Score 0) 71

Blaming drug dealers for addiction.
The root cause of the harm attributed to social media is the weaknesses in human nature.
The social media companies didn't create the weaknesses, they exploited them.
Advertisers and politicians have been doing this for years.
People are far too easy to manipulate.

Comment Psychosis and delusion (Score 3, Insightful) 75

Hypemongers and pundits write articles claiming that the totally clueless can "vibe code" all software.
The clueless use AI tools to make simple programs that kinda appear to work if you don't look to closely. They write articles about their imagined success.
The hypemongers and pundits use these articles to boldly claim that software engineering is dead.
When real software engineers look at the vibe coded stuff, they see a dumpster fire of bloated, inefficient, bug-ridden, insecure slop.
The hypemongers and pundits continue to write articles, but they are all about increasing productivity.
I have not seen one article that talks about increasing quality, creating bug-free, secure, efficient, maintainable and well documented code.
We need quality, not quantity, especially if the quantity sucks.

Comment Great idea in theory (Score 1) 188

In practice, the details are tricky and details matter.
We need to stop implementing policy open-loop, based on guesses of what the outcome will be.
We need a more accurate economic model that predicts the real world effects of policy changes.
Along with that, we need a procedure in place to measure the effects of policy changes and adjust as necessary.

Comment This is a temporary adaptation (Score 1) 43

It is trying to make the old system work in the new technological world
Education needs major reform
Imagine an AI tutor perfectly matched to a student's talents and learning speed, supplemented by a human teacher.
There would be no need for exams as the AI tutor would constantly assess the student's progress and adjust the teaching as necessary
Imagine learning physics from a virtual Einstein or Feynman

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