They're not "squishy science", they're the factors that actually have thr most influence on whether someone turns criminal or not at that economic level.

They the actual science.

Going for the blank numbers instead without understanding model or context is the true squishy science.

Or do you actually suggest that the amount on melanin in someone's skin is somehow a mechanism that drives crime?

What happens when you normalize not for skin color, but, say, for income, parents income, access to education etc?

"It's my grandma"s biryhday."

Type your wipe pin on a label and glue it on the back of your phone. "Hide" it in a very obvious, idiotic way, e.g. below the shock absorbing cover.

Or be particularly "smart" about it, scratch it into the cover.

Some wannabe hacker law enforcement idiot sooner or later is bound to try it out.

Not your fault they've destroyed evidence.

Not sure why that's necessary. The nukes had the ability to destroy the planet several (dozens of) times over.

Calculating fissile matetial decay seems like a straight-forward task to be done on the back of an envelope.

What else could possibly have changed?

If your internet is just a better TV to you, enabling you only to consume what giants think you should, then yes, you're right.

If you perceive the internet to be a truly democratic mass-medium, where symmetry between sender and receiver is built-in, and everyone can be a sender, not just a receiver... then no. You're not right.

Ah, so your take is that those truly and generationally fucked don't complain loudly enough?

Amen to that.

Depends on the direction. It's not that clear cut.

To demonstrate, simple question: who benefits?

Hint: it's not mis-educated kids, it's a class of incredible wealth and power.

You can't honestly talk about "being for life" if you aren't prepared to talk about how how "life" is designed to fail young people in the US.

Entering adulthood with mor debt than you require to buy a 2-bedroom flat in most European countries, "entey-level" jobs that require several.years of experience, pay that would've been considered low even for 1990s standards, inability to.every finance any place.of your own, except perhaps your mom's basement, without sharing information th roommates or a spouse, no recreational standard (like paid time off), absolutely no retirement perspective, no worker protection of any kind that passes the laughing test, health "insurance" tied to employment...

You fucked up. You got yours and pulled the ladder up behnd you.

And now artificial metrics, like.your freshman assessments, are going to.get used your future success.in a lottery that you're barely likely to survive in anyway.

THAT'S the framing you need to use if you're going to have an honest discussion aboht equipping the young for life.

Strangely, not old enough to have a beer.

Yes but amateur porn is still the best :-p

Afghan opium farmers have been using solar panels instead of Diesel generarors for close to a decade now. How many hints do you still need that solar is cheaper?

True enough, but the "live" vs "test" discrimination is not exactly subtle clues. It's a fundamental, structural difference.

That's beside the point.

Parent poster has a very valid point. "AI" figured out the concept of social engineering, how pull reqursts might be handled by an AI, how hacking side projects tonget into other side projects to get into somewhere else, to get information, might be a good strategy? And it did this from ingesting massive amounts if humans generated literature?

But somehow magically didn't grasp the fucking concept of "live" vs "test"?!

Gimme a break.

When you do a sport, like tennis, boxing, or whtever else -- what you've done in your training is teaching your stem brain to react and coordinate doszens of simultaneous tasks.

The thing is: it's only the neocortex that can't truly multitask.

Driving is a good example: you can do most of the tasks out of a well trained stem brain. The challenge is to not offload essential, complex decision-making tasks, requiring differentiate processing, and which therefore absolutely have to be on the neocortex -- or else people die.

This is why I don't like many driver assistance features: they draw away neocortex capacitiy, in other words: they're needlessly distracting.

Some are useful though.