College GPAs are just meaningless and it's time we just forget about them.

That GPA is what gets you in the door, over other applicants on those first jobs...

Hell, when I think about it....if "I" were a child today, and my parents raised me like they did back in the day....they'd be under the jail, with child protective services taking me away LONG ago....

No cell phones...and during the summers starting when I was a teenager....my mom started work again....so I'd be home alone all day, running around the neighborhood with my friends, playing all day.

We rode bikes and skateboards miles....played in the woods near our subdivision that hadnt' been developed yet....built forts, built skateboard ramps (the local house constructions "donated materials").....neighborhood pool, etc.

When I was very young, I had to call home about every 2 hours from a friends house....but other than that, I'd leave at sunrise and my folks generally didn't see me again till dusk and dinner, where we all ate together.

I got a job at 16yrs....I've been working ever since. With a little help, early graduation, I bought my own car my senior year in high school....a '78 280Z....fun!!

But yeah, no supervision was how we grew up, my friends and I are all older adults now, many with kids....we got into trouble and mischief, sure, but nothing that stopped the world and we learned how to deal with people and the world.

It's a replacement for current turboprops, on their shorter routes. This is a picture of this plane:

https://www.heartaerospace.com...

This is the De Havilland Dash 8:

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

And the ATR 42:

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

Note some similarities?

You're need to get to work, get groceries, maybe go for an occasional Sunday drive. Do you buy a Porsche or a Honda?

SpaceX is. Grok/Twitter/xAI isn't. And SpaceX themselves advise that most of the growth potential, and thus most of the future value, is in the latter, not the former.

Software. Software companies often get P/E ratios of around 30 because they spend lots of money developing a product but after that they usually have very high profit margins and their incremental cost is pretty close to zero. That's why everyone, from Tesla to Uber, wants to be a "software company."

They're not though, and neither is Anthropic. They're a service provider whose ongoing costs are very high and there's no real reason to think they're going to be coming down much in the near future. Their incremental costs are also very high, having to pay for all the processing time. They're more like Tesla who has to actually build cars not just provide a download link. Except even Tesla doesn't have to spend billions every quarter to come out with a new product to keep up with their neck and neck competitors.

If the original ToS on Twitch grants Amazon a license to create derivative works then they don't have anything to worry about.

It's like your local superstation had the rights to run ads on Star Trek in addition to the license fee they paid but they didn't therefore get a right to create a new Star Trek series or publish a "Best Moments of STTNG 1989" show around the holidays.

Now if they had gone to Paramount about the Best-Of show in theory they could have negotiated a license for that, having already been media partners. Heck, some software company got Riker to pitch their product from the Bridge.

The big authors' settlement with OpenAI sets at least some precedent in this nascent field of IP law (which is enforced whether we like it or not).

But I've never heard of a Twitch streamer talking about a derivative work that Amazon created from their show using their words or likeness.

To be fair Youtube does indeed do a yearly "best of" show.

Who knows, maybe we'll see an AI Hassan Piker doing and saying some wildly ill-advised shit in the near future. Would not be entirety shocking.

I assume by "flow rate" you mean power, which is indeed measured in Watts. The article seems to have its units straight. Perhaps your understanding isn't quite what you think it is?

I can't remember the last time I witnessed a hospital demonstrating general competence

Where do you live where it is so bad there?

Unfortunately in the past 2 years...ive had to make a number of visits to the ER and one major surgrery....and I could NOT be happier with the doctors, nurses and general staff of the hospitals I've been too....

And my insurance covered most of all of it...didn't put me in the poor house like so many seem to claim will happen in the US if you get some much as a hang nail....this is private medicine I'm talking about with me, not VA.

You got letter grades in high school? So you could get something like 1 in 10 answers wrong and still get a perfect grade? Lol, what a joke.

Pass/fail, letter grades, four point scales, even percentages, all of these do the same thing. They group actual scores into categories. You can choose those categories based on what you think the uncertainty in the evaluation scheme is, or meaningful performance bands, or just chopping an unknown distribution into arbitrary equal-sized chunks ("any statistician would tell you").

It's a good question, but I think framing it as what humans need to do to be able to live alongside ASI is the wrong way to look at it. The right way to look at it is "What do humans need to learn how to do to have fulfilling lives?".

Of course that question also depends on what makes sense for humans in a world run by benevolent ASI. We don't need to bother thinking about humans' role in a world run by malevolent or even disinterested ASI because there will be no role.

Well, you fail the pass/fail graded course in knowing what a participation trophy is for.

Sort of. When my kids were in public school in the 2000s and 2010s, book encyclopedias were sometimes grudgingly accepted as source. Not always, and it was often made clear that they weren't proper sources (because they're not!). The solution was to use Wikipedia but to follow the reference links to the primary sources it cites and use those.

I thought that wasn't just a good answer, but a strict improvement over accepting hardcover encyclopedias, both pedagogically and as a matter of scholarly principle.

Your grade in whatever-101 is unlikely to be a very important number unless maybe you're going to be teaching those courses. Neither grad school nor an employer is going to care much about your relative performance on answering questions about Newton's laws, balancing redox equations or single variable calculus. Any important problem there would be reflected in future grades.

Realistically all your precise undergrad grades are pretty irrelevant to both grad school and employers. They just use them as a convenient filter.

Right. So pass/fail works just fine.

I had honours calculus, an algorithms course and formal logic that were the weed out courses. Something like half the students dropped each of them before the no penalty drop date and of the rest about 50% passed. Then they scaled the grades so if you did pass you pretty much got a perfect score.