This is just as reductionist as saying emotions are just chemicals, our thoughts are just electrical spikes and the entire internet is just 0s and 1s.

A complex system is not just a lot of the basic operations but has inherently different characteristics as a complex system.

I disagree. It is a waste of time.

But, I think you're probably right in a different way.

Even when I was in college decades ago, we used to say, "what you learn in school doesn't matter, what matters is that you showed you can jump all the hoops to get the degree"

This is my pet theory but we don't need to do homeworks like we think of where we ask questions and expect answers from the students.

If AI can generate answers, we should ask people to make questions as homework.

Other camps will say homework should be to generate answers and understand how to use AI to generate answers, like using a calculator or CAS like a tool and be able to verify it.

Word problems were a solution to CAS. I don't know what the solution AI is but it has to be found. If it can't be found then there is no reason for the field to exist and no reason for people to study it anymore.

That's just time wasting.

Heard stories of older professors who would do 3x3 matrix inversions by hand in front of the classroom. Going back to my example, doing integration by parts over and over again in front of the students.

This reminds me of my college days when calculus teacher would ask me to integrate an expression and CAS could do it it in a fraction of a section. Instead we were expected to spend half an hour doing it, documenting all the "tricks".

If AI can do your homework, the homework is wrong. The teacher needs to create a homework that is AI proof.

The solution to my calculus was to make the problem into a "word problem" where you had to get obtain the equation. The integration part would then be done by CAS.

In the AI world, it can't be questions that is trivially solvable by AI.

Americans should be able to buy the car they want.

Affordable vehicle ownership is essential to the American Dream and a primary driver of economic mobility out of poverty in the United States. Americans rely on vehicles to reach jobs, education, health care, and essential services. This is especially true in rural areas and regions without robust public transit.

We should be improving affordability and expanding consumer choice and ultimately advancing the American Dream by making it easier to reach jobs, grow small businesses, and participate fully in the transportation and logistics systems that power the U.S. economy.

Yep, package distribution via peer to peer would happen if those "grants" dried up.

There is every incentive to never have such a system even pop up for the companies selling centralized data access.

You probably meant Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle, Google that are laying off employees and are making huge speculative investments.

However, they were already sitting on mountains of cash and so can afford to burn it.

I know the narrative is that AI capital investment is bad but this is a bit of a stretch.

Mostly flawless.

In most cases, Linux feels better for gaming and seems to have fewer strange issues.

You can also rip data from streaming music services.

When you download a torrent, its yours forever too.

You're absolutely right about not needing degrees.

However, people without a degree have some sort of fear that they missed out on something without a degree. I tell them they didn't but are more reticent to switch jobs and look for better opportunities.

I disagree with you about other stuff you said but I don't want to get into that now.

I agree. Everybody falls in a bell curve but when in the instances an H1b comes out on top, the companies want the top candidate rather than rejecting the top candidate for a lower candidate that is not H1b. Not saying h1b is always better; but when they are better they are not rejected due to their h1b in favor of a local candidate.

On your second point, once you have someone who is already doing the job and doing well in it, there is very little reason to want to take on a new person. The law wants you to replace him/her but everybody would want to keep their co-worker. The law needs a reason to reject and people will find it.

Again, this is not in the spirit of the law though fine with the letter of the law.

I'm against H1b. It was initially created as a way for foreign workers to get into the US where local skill was not available. The green card was followed shortly afterwards and people would be in h1b for only a short time. The current way of students getting into h1b, Indians having decades long h1b etc is all bad and not in the spirit of how it was initially conceived. The path from working to green card and citizenship should be very very short.

It is to pay for the tax cuts and interest payments on the giant national debt.

DoE will be dissolved soon.

I find that older Indians are MAGA and Trump voters.

Why? I can't quite understand.