I implore you to read this paper written by the US government immediately after WW2. https://ia801608.us.archive.or...

Here's a free book for the politicians in DC to read to learn why central planning always fails.

I mean it's only been out 106 years, so maybe they haven't heard of it yet.

TL;DR local cities have more information about what they need.

Of course corruption happens at all levels and some folks in cities still have DSL for that reason.

...all of this will be overturned by the courts again.

Taxpayers will pay for both sides of the court battles. Hurray for more debt.

Honestly it just smells like a scam to me. Like those man camps that have been floating around for a while. Wealthy people aren't smart they're lucky and ruthless.

At present, no. I've done a number of experiments with LLMs' capabilities with generating fiction, and while they are impressive for a beginner writer -- because fo the lack of spelling and grammar mistakes, they are nowhere near being able to write competent fiction.

This is because they don't model reader or character minds, they're based on word probabilities, like a predictive text keyboard. The engineers can compensate for for this to a surprising degree by feeding it data to recognize specific situations (e.g. the car wash is 100 feet from my driveway; should I drive or walk?). But this is turd-polishing.

if you scroll up, you will see that I replied "exactly" to your statement

I assume you will respond "exactly" to my statement

AI technology practice isn't foundational. Critical thinking is. The closer AIs come to being able to do something that looks like them doing our thinking for us, the more capable we have to be at thinking without them. A human who can't outthink an AI adds nothing to an AI-human partnership.

This proposed school is a typical scheme by people who think because they have been educated, they understand how the education works. This is like thinking because you eat, you know how to cook. Project work in education is nothing new; it goes back well over a century. And in real life, you may get a STEM degree, but your real education in engineering comes from real life work. But that doesn't mean classes in calculus and physics don't do anything for you.

Or English classes, for that matter. Nobody doubts the value of project work in education, particularly *androgogy* -- the education of adults. But for *pedagogy* you have to establish foundational skills as the student matures intellectually and socially. Entering the high school years, a typical student has had *no* training in critical thinking skills. To develop critical thinking skills in an area, you need both general skills (epistemologicla literacy: research, location of orignial sources, dealing with conflicting evidence) and domain specific training in that area. In other words, *liberal arts* training is foundational in an AI-saturated world. "Liberal Arts" -- from *artes liberales*: literally the skills necessary to be a free person.

But I think these people have at least got the problem right: as AI drives the cost of elaborate projects down, we all have more projects in our future. Big, elaborate, faultlessly plausible-looking projects which may or may not have actual value.

Where they are completely wrong is the solution, which is to organize education around practicing using AI to make impressive projects. In a word of AI-enamored dunces this will put you at the head of a very sorry class of ignoramuses. The answer is to build fundamental cognitive and intellectual skils at every stage of a student's development. Project work is surely part of that, but it's just a technique, not a solution.

In a nutshell, the academy is training students to be the next step down the evolutionary scale from code monkeys. More like the pigeons B.F. Skinner trained in WW2 to peck at a screen, in an attempt to create a primitive guided missile without computers. They want to create "main characters"; and they'll probably create a few. There are always a few natural autodidacts in any moderately large group. But what they are set up is to produce a bunch of fragile, economically privileged narcissists trained to cover their lack of education with impressive-looking AI slop.

Well, I know about that, so I guess I should have been more specific. What I don't get is the perpetual falling for it again. They get nothing they were promised, or they get a little bit of it temporarily (like Trump(1)'s tax cuts for lower income people which expired after two years) and then it gets yoinked away and they just come back for another round.

It really has to be the cultism that I don't get? Because I think we've all been where we thought we could do things we couldn't, some of us just extrapolated from lessons learned from failure...

...business school, but without any pesky professors, accreditations, or quality control? AND I get to give my best ideas to Andreessen (and other VC types) who will then make a bunch of money on my idea and my work?

Where do I sign up?!?!?!

Sure but you CAN use it to bribe the president. Progress!

I'm so tired of everyone trying to scam me. Everyone trying to get me to work harder for less and give them what little I have for nothing...

/. has video ads now and they're scams because of course they are...

It's a reference to Ludicrous Speed, in the movie Spaceballs, which is faster than Light Speed - with "Ridiculous Speed" in between. Someone else followed my post with "They've gone to plaid!", which is also from that film. (All in the clip below).

Spaceballs - Ludicrous Speed

It's just implying how stupid Trump is being, or is...

I'm surprised he did not brand it "Trump Intelligence".

A commodity is an investment when you invest in it, expecting it to increase in value.