What Marjorie Taylor Greene missed was that if there really were Jewish Space Lasers, she would have been zapped out of existence decades ago. If doing damage is your goal, then use an excessive amount of power, and yea, no problem if ANYTHING gets in the way of the beam.
Many kids in school don't like being forced to just memorize things, so giving them APPLICATIONS of what they are learning is key. I was always the one who would ask "why?", which annoyed my parents and teachers, but in the end, illustrates how to break through. Applications of the things the children are expected to learn.
For English, when a student used poor language skills, challenge them, "what do you mean? Do you really expect anyone besides you and your close friends to understand what you are talking about?" There are many uses for mathematics that goes beyond just, "solve this direct problem", make the students really apply the things from math class to solving things, and give them the sense that figuring out the solution is actually rewarding(it wasn't an obvious thing, it required thinking through the problem to come up with the right formula to use to solve it).
The old era of "memorize, memorize, memorize" as a way to get through tests is dead. You don't want to make it easy to use computers/AI to do well on tests, so the way around that is to make it so students need to really understand the questions/problems in order to use computers/AI to come up with the solutions.
I'd bet, though, that we'll see a sudden surge of voters pressuring their legislatures to force power companies to give residential service priority over data centers.
That is the key. Vote out politicians such as PSC members or who appointed them and you’ll get the attention of the rest.
I just asked it about local events this weekend and it gave a startlingly useful list in a few seconds. Cross-checking with sources, it's actually accurate. I spent several minutes Googling and couldn't find the same information in one place--the death of my local newspaper made sure of that.
I find it's very good a specific, bounded questions like you asked, because all it has to do is search for specific matching information; it's when it has to search through a lot of data that may be conflicting and decide what to use is where it starts falling apart.
What could go wrong? It's not like AI ever tried to blackmail a user, accidentally wiped out lots of file, hallucinates, etc.; so there is no reason not to ogive it access to your real world financial accounts.
With all the great financial advice on Redit's various forums, coupled with lots of great crypto investment discussions on other forums, you'd miss out on ways to GET RICH QUICK.
Oh and if you still think this is all a joke watch the safety testing at the end.
The USA is cooked.
Politicians have to come up with some excuse to protect their auto industry donors and voters. Spying is simply the peripheral issue that lets them come up with a catchy soundbite while enacting protectionist measures. While such monitoring is an issue, this doesn't really address the core problem that your car phones home and stores a lot of data about what you have done and where.
As for the "storage and network access cosst are low" argument, a product is priced on value, not cost.
Yes, and what this article is about is the value of the service declining, so people are leaving for services with a better value proposition.
Which is the beauty of competition. If they can migrate to a platform that costs less and keep their existing base, grow it and make more money from a different site, that's great; and SubStack will have to adapt or die.
The other question is what happens when these cheaper sites see the revenue they generate for their users? Will they decide they want a bigger slice.
As for the "storage and network access cosst are low" argument, a product is priced on value, not cost. Generating large readerships that make a lot of money for an other has value beyond the actual costs to the company that does that; and if you buy the costs determine price argument than charging $10 for a newsletter that costs nearly nothing for the nth copy means the writer should also charge a lot less as well. After all, why shoul they make a million dolalrs for something that cost them mayber a few hundred thousand (assuming 2000 work hours at say 100/hour) to produce.
There are fundamental issues with the way AI is being promoted and used by companies that cause significant concerns. Using AI as a tool makes sense, but because AI does not have a fundamental ability to test itself and the results it generates, you should not automatically trust what comes from AI. Things like "AI hallucinations", where AI gives things like legal cases that do not exist as an argument for a legal brief are documented. The structure of software written by AI may also defy the ability to fix problems in the code generated. If the code generated by AI can't have bugs fixed because the code isn't well designed/structured, that's a BIG problem.
And then, there is the "over-promise" of AI...yea, AI can be used to eliminate human jobs, before the actual quality of what AI is doing has been verified. This would be like taking a group of high school graduates, giving them jobs, but then, not having experienced people monitoring what those recent high school graduates were doing, or correcting "bad behaviors".
Again, AI has potential, but is too new to be trusted at this point to be a full replacement for human employees. As a tool for employees, hey, it's all good, but those employees should also do a verification that what the AI came up with is accurate.
No, they are not "kept from art", but physical and mental exhaustion caused by a difficult life can cause people to lose their desire to just look at art. When life beats you down, some people who are naturally artistic will go to art as a refuge. For the rest of us, we look to activities we find entertaining, and that often involves either DOING things, or watching others do things.
Now, I'm not suggesting you are MAGA, you actually have a good argument. Culturally though, we are at a point where those going through difficult times will have the majority looking to activities. There's a reason the masses would go to watch people being thrown to the lions or in gladiator combat, or sports. Some are just "wired" to more physical activities. Now, make them climb a rock wall to see the art, and that might work to serve both sides.
Be that as it may, it really does come down to the wealthy having advantages in the USA that would cause a longer lifespan, and that includes not having access to decent healthcare options(short of emergency services) for those who are at the lower end of the economic spectrum. For many, it ends up being an issue of the culture where many have been raised not to go to a doctor when they are not feeling well due to the economic situation their family was in, or even their parents who were raised not to seek medical care.
Those who "come from money" will often be raised to seek medical care sooner than those who come from the lower end of the economic sectrum due to how they were raised. Call it class warfare, but that's life in the USA.
A million years ago when I got my first management job I had to attend a training session on 'Goals and Objectives', the current in vogue management tool. The instructor impressed on us that 'you get what you measure'. He used an example of police wanting to improve road safety by measuring the number of moving violation tickets given out. Ticket quantities went through the roof but there was no improvement in accident rates; go figure. What was true in the 70s is still true today.
Which is why you have to ensure what you measure actually produces desired outcomes and not create perverse incentives. Reminds me of teh Dilbert cartoon where the PHB announces a bug bounty and Wally says “I’m writing myself a new minivan”
You obviously don't understand the actual post being made. The more difficult life is to do things like paying your bills, working multiple jobs, and things of that sort, the more stress people will have, which shortens their lives. On the flip side, those who have more leisure time and carry less stress will live longer.
It needs to go beyond just what they consume, but also, for ALL infrastructure upgrades associated with it. You open a new sports stadium, the stadium owners should be paying for highway and rail construction, plus maintenance for those things going forward. You open a data center, the data center owners will generally not be paying for upgraded transmission lines, transformers, and even the cost of all new generators required.
The moon is made of green cheese. -- John Heywood
