I have to wonder: how much of this is due to how college is designed? You take maybe 1-2 classes a semester related to your field of study, until 3rd or 4th year. History is not a common major, especially after 1-2 year.

I would think that someone bothering to major in a particular field would at least take the time to proofread their own papers.

At 32 out of 35, with only 3 not cheating, that makes me wonder a couple things (besides whether there are fewer history majors now that college is so expensive, and job outcomes in academia are increasingly uncertain): Is this a 100-200 level class? His video seems to suggest so - only part of the midterm was on the Industrial Revolution, and these answers suggest broad 100-level "required" class.

This isn't a story about AI cheating and ruining education. It's about a much deeper, systemic problem with both higher education as an institution, how it's financed, why it's even required, and our cultural valuation (or lack thereof) of the value of a holistic education.

Fair point.

I also don't see them paying hundreds+ if not thousands of dollars for unique books, per book.

You realize they banned the founder of Wikipedia, from Wikipedia, for having badthink ideas - right?

That's one model. There are many.

IOW I need to now run local (or cloud) Chinese models to make sure Claude isn't designing back doors into my software.

Customer token cost is one side of the coin.

The other side is inference cost: what's it take to run?

The Chinese models are all significantly smaller than what Opus/Mythos are, supposedly. That's a big factor in their cost efficiency, and why they're cheaper.

If they've managed to make long strides in improving the efficiency/overhead of their models, it would go just as far as dropping price.

Can you point to any history which has been destroyed, specifically? The last copy of a historic work?

I can't believe anyone who values information to any degree would do this.

"keep the stuff AI is killing"

Like what, exactly?

- Reddit, which is a minefield of misinformation and crazy ideologues
- Wikipedia, which has an official stance of ideological filtering, having banned the founder
- StackExchange - hasn't been relevant in years, likely the source of much of the AI coding hallucination and bad agent tooling
- Google - hasn't been a useful search engine since at least 2018, mostly just an ad delivery system now
- not sure what else

Meanwhile, I can still read books published before 2020. But I can also build things quickly to read them to me out loud (even reading a paper book, if I so desired), and there are millions of APIs I can directly and quickly harness to generate a ridiculous amount of information which was locked behind hours of work trying to decipher horrible API documentation + coding.

I don't see it as a loss.

"CD sales still increased 6.7% year over year, even if the whole genre was removed from the equation, jumping 16% to 16.3 million units."

That's gotta be money laundering. CD sales have decreased an average of 12% per year, for the past quarter century.

Yes, I intentionally don't go to work because I'm too busy going to the Illegal Immigrant Volunteer Slaughterhouse. This means I don't have the money to feed my family or fuck hot chicks. It's a sacrifice we all have to make for the future of our children, though!

Man, they really need to pass a law or something to make it affordable to have healthcare in this country, man. Someone should run on that premise. It's something long past having not been tried.

How do you think those immigrants get those skills in other countries? Are they randomly birthed with them, perhaps assigned them? Bequeathed, like a royal bloodline?

Are you retarded?

No. There are 3 ways they get them, the same as in the US:
1) earn them
2) buy them
3) fake them

At the very least, they had to have the forethought to acquire them in piece or in farce before applying for the job, unless you're suggesting a very large percentage of India appears to have precognition as well as having a disproportionately high rate of supposed idiot savants/high functioning autists (and that 'functioning' is doing a lot of work).

I'm so sick of this shit. It doesn't matter what your political persuasion is, you've got to admit that this is completely self contradictory:

"shortages in the tens or even hundreds of thousands of nurses, physicians, teachers, engineers, pharmacists, mental health counselors, construction worker and airplane mechanics"

If there is less of something (labor) the value of that thing will increase due to increased demand. It does not matter if they were allocated by government fiat (a communistic thing, funny enough, given the prevalence of H1B as a so-called "capitalist" measure).

More H1Bs and 'helping' companies is more of a planned or managed economy. It's more communist. But the fact is that no amount of societal uplifting that will make an 80IQ citizen a 120IQ citizen so that there's enough doctors or engineers. The only real option is to pay more for it, as a larger incentive to allow those who are smarter to be more likely to pursue it. (After all: as much fun as it is to operate heavy machinery all day, construction still wasn't the career that the smart kids who liked to play into the dirt went into...)

"One note from a science process technicality: the closed-source nature of these LLMs makes reproducibility very difficult, which weakens the strength of their result."

No more so than a study in psychology.

That's the truth of it, and this is arguably the real news here. I've got agents that do more web browsing today on my computers than I do.