Especially in america. The most obvious thing is that the bells were there to train people to work in factories.

But it's pretty well known that the education system was built to make useful workers for the Epstein class. The reason it's sometimes doesn't feel that way is that it's modeled after the education system the Epstein class maintains for themselves which is very much not designed for that purpose. The Epstein class has a completely different education system for their kids designed to teach them critical thinking and a variety of skills associated with stealing money from the lower classes. The critical thinking is especially important to prevent their kids from being taken advantage of and having their money stolen since every member of the ruling elite are crooks and psychopaths.

This is how and why guys like Kim jong-un went to school overseas at fancy schools and it's the same reason mitt Romney went to fancy schools. They're being taught to function in a aristocracy where everyone is going to stab everyone in the back because they are all complete total psychopaths. The ones who aren't get weeded out pretty quick at that level.

Getting back on point the school system has some elements where it's designed to make smarter people with critical thinking skills but those elements are blunted because of a combination of religious parents who don't want their kids coming home with an actual understanding of the holy books and as well as the ruling class wanting pliable useful tools instead of people who can think.

Information is out there if you care to look it up but I warned you it's very very boring. If you think world history is dull try reading the history of the American education system.

ok, so you are making up reasons.

This is been extremely well researched. Homework is essentially worthless. There's a very very small amount of homework you can give out each week, not each night each week, that has been shown to be moderately useful.

The real problem here is we have too many people who could be doing useful things but not profitable things.

The homework system and our school system is a sorting system. It's designed to pick out who is going to be useful to the Epstein class. But when you have too many people and the Epstein class just doesn't need that many for their purposes you start introducing shit like homework to decide who gets to be useful in society and who gets to spend the rest of their lives trying to avoid homelessness.

On the other hand it could just be all that avocado toast to those kids are eating. I mean screw experts in education whether they know anyway?

America in 2026 is best summed up with that old Isaac Asimov quote, the one about your ignorance being just as good as my knowledge...

If AI works and it probably eventually will you can basically get rid of every white collar worker in the country except the epstein-class CEOs.

That is trillions of dollars in value. But even ignoring the raw economic value the control and power it gives you is worth any expense.

People keep asking if you don't have jobs who's going to buy their products?

What in Christ's name makes you think that they want to sell you a product? Think about that.

These are borderline gods who are completely dependent on your fickle whims as a consumer. Imagine a king or an emperor living like that. They couldn't it's why they lost to the merchant class.

This level of automation is the first step to putting us back to feudalism and the divine right of kings. It eliminates the connection between the Epstein class and you as a consumer and employee.

This is why Facebook is planning on more data center energy use then every single house in this country. They are sick and tired of you having civilization and having any say in Civilization. It belongs to them. They are Gods.

All of this is so far beyond your daily life that you can't even understand the words I'm saying. Almost nobody can. I do but that's because I'm neurotic. I can see all the bad stuff coming and because I'm already broken I can face it head on. Normal human beings can't get out of bed knowing the state of the world.

This doesn't make me tough by the way. It's the exact opposite it makes me a nervous wreck. Ignorance is bliss.

Billionaires in the Epstein class already control the media. They own 90% of it. There is no reason for them to bother attacking their own infrastructure.

The tactics used in America for maintaining control are really simple. Control the media. Undermine education so that people do not learn critical thinking, used generic moral panics to keep people from voting in their economic interests, disrupt left wing and progressive get out the vote campaigns and actual effective political organization, and finally lots of lots of voter suppression done at the county level. New Hampshire just made it so that you can't use a student ID to vote and naturally the supreme Court said that's a-ok. And of course our entire drug policy was set up by Richard Nixon in order to attack progressives and the left wing.

So with all that already in place there's absolutely no need to do fancy shit disrupting the left wing like that. It's like the old comic about the guy with the 1024-bit encryption getting hit with a $2 wrench until he gives them the password.

When I ask the models that my company makes available to me to write something it will kind of sort of do it. But about half the time it will generate something that is completely wrong. I then have to debug it and then well I could have just written it myself.

It also takes a tremendous amount of effort to learn how to correctly prompt and again well, at that point why don't I just write it myself?

The programming isn't what takes forever it's getting all the business logic in place and explaining it to people. I spent hours explaining to management why something they wanted to do wouldn't work, implemented it, it didn't work, and I will have to reimplement a bunch of stuff now.

One thing AI will do it will let everyone be a code monkey. But those jobs were already in India so as an American I'm not that concerned.

On the other hand AI has convinced leadership that a shitload of things that can be automated that they for some reason didn't believe could be automated can now in fact be automated. So AI is devouring jobs indirectly. A bunch of jobs that could be automated or now in the process of automation and are just disappearing. It's why America is pushing 25% functional unemployment. We are basically in a 2008 style recession and just not talking about it

From what I understand they're not exactly a nice company. Apparently they have a habit of stealing images and using their size to bully the photographers into silence.

But either way it sucks because it means more AI slop. We're already seeing these absolutely ridiculous and hideous restaurant menus all over the place. One thing I learned years ago good enough is always good enough.

I had the head of accounting personally come to my cubicle for a $200 expense.

Wait until you learn about Python 3.

Is there? What is the reason? Let me know, maybe we can win a Nobel together.

If Slashdot code ever gets open-sourced, I'll fix the Unicode.

You...can't even write complete sentences.

Your comment makes me think you've never used an LLM to write significant code. Why not advise to use an AGENT.mr?

Do you know how many SV companies let you log in with an empty password because no one tests negative cases? We are so broken as programmers.

It's amazing how few programmers are willing to use a profiler, even if you show them how and why. I don't know what braindead rock our profession collectively crawled out from under, but it's the rock that is allergic to simple tools to solve the problem.