Agreed, in fact I think that's a major reason to avoid use of non-hybrid PQC.

See also: Android and the ever-increasing difficulty, impracticality, and necessity of getting root access.

1. Many major universities prohibited (and some continue to prohibit) the use of standardized testing in admissions starting in 2020. This removes the competency check and relies almost entirely on grades that are stunningly inflated nowadays because...
---a. Teachers are pressured not to "ruin the college prospects of their students".
---b. Not fail students because the districts aren't allowed to hold students back.

2. They're ALLOWED to enter the university because higher education funding has been so massively cut in certain administrations that the universities **need** to rely on student tuition to keep the lights on. If you need 25,000 enrolled students to survive to a better time and student quality has tanked... you just lower your standards.

It's not video games. Video games can definitely share some blame for the reduced physical activity of the millennial and Gen Alpha, but scholastic competencies are the result of K-12 schools & school boards being the battlegrounds of political causes for the last 30 years.

The kids are stupid because a generation of nutjobs intentionally screwed up their education.

1. No, the unique individual student of a UC college/university is not becoming less literate by the day. They're actually becoming MORE literate while enrolled.
2. Yes, the colleges and universities acknowledge that graduating 12th-graders are significantly less capable in math and reading than 10 years ago and are still admitting them to their freshman classes. Thus, the overall competencies of the enrolled student populations are lower than in the past.

Why is this happening?

1. Long-term strategic degradation of public education
-- Massive coordinated defunding of public education over the last 30 years (private school vouchers, funding reductions).
-- Coordinated invasion of the education management sphere by people with no educational background for the purpose of pushing political/social agendas.
-- Over-empowering parents to influence or pressure educators to give certain grades.

2. Continued devaluing/undervaluing of the teaching profession

3. Some **horribly misguided universities** prohibited the use of standardized tests in admissions (some temporarily, some ongoing). This allows students hyper-inflated high school grades and easily-cheated essays to be able to enter university without proving their competencies.

4. Massive defunding of colleges and universities via changes to research funding and direct funding force those campuses to accept less capable students to just keep the lights on.

So ya... this isn't new. It's not sudden. It doesn't come as a surprise. Anyone who's been embedded in higher education for the last decade or more has seen it all coming. And the faculty are so sick and tired of basically having to teach remedial high school courses to people who are supposed to be in the top 10% of students are starting to rebel.

There was a time when Anthropic had successfully convinced a LOT of people that they were the one and only trustworthy AI/LLM. They've pretty much blown that tentative good faith up and they should know that.

I find it odd that they're still carrying on as if they're the "good guy".

It's not as good as we want, but it's not as bad as you say.

The INTERNET has a ton of bullshit. It also is the single greatest source of fact in the history of human civilization. The challenge is separating fact from bullshit. Pre-evil Google figured out that if you rank websites' relevance according by references, the truth tends to float to the top.

Every pseudonymous/anonymous communication outlet has a ton of bullshit. What matters is the scoring structure, though, tends to float stuff to the top. That whats makes it useful. There's has been enough truth in Reddit posts and the scoring system had been sufficiently successful that after everyone learned how to game Google in search of clicks, people started adding "reddit" to their Google searches knowing that it genuinely increased their ability to solve a problem.

It just so happens that now its getting even worse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

While typically used to advise against holding a person's job hostage based on KPIs, I see it's relevance here as well:

"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure" or

"Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes."

ChatGPT and the Reddit management both assert that scraping Reddit for solutions and facts is good because it's full of real solutions from real humans, but once it became known that was happening, it became certain that people were going to exploit that by spamming Reddit.

I think open source does not need to embrace AI coding, it needs to apply extra scrutiny to it otherwise it will become slop.

AB-1856 (https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1856) is titled "Age verification signals: software applications and online services", but that's primarily for show. The key part of the proposed law says:

There is no verification of age. It's self-report of age at OS setup. There is no verification required by this code. The OS then provides age bracket range upon request.

They actually do both, they're known to use their Manna-clone system that orders warehouse workers around to "find problems" with the performance of anyone involved in unionizing and fire them as an early line of defense. They've done this with unionization attempts in the US before (at least one of those warehouses did successfully unionize despite that). Shutting down the FC and moving out of town is their nuke-it-from-orbit option when all else has failed.

Penalties are light and unlikely enough in many jurisdictions for employers to consider it a cost of doing business though. See what Amazon's been doing in their warehouses in Quebec and BC for examples. Coincidentally, guess which Canadian provinces have the most videogame dev studios...

Maybe a system where everyone gets a share of collective productivity but has to take a turn at work could make those people feel better. So everyone gets their lifetime supply of food/shelter/healthcare/transportation/entertainment in return for their 5-10 years working or whatever the economy actually needs, so there's no shortage of human labor and nobody feels that there's an unfair division of labor either.

Of course the problem with that is another problem contributing to the current situation, there are people who seek maximally unequal shares of wealth for themselves and would fight an egalitarian utopia tooth and nail. Rich and powerful people who can contribute to the 10,000 year old effort of tricking the proles into propping up the aristocracy.

It's not the worst idea ever but it's worse than better options the billionaires want to distract us from with discussion of UBI, like universal basic services and democratic socialism, ideas where they don't retain as much of their wealth and power as they might with UBI.

I might've gone to one but it seems they're all in the past now. Maybe I'll remember to check next year.