Rhaedas

Huh. Who would have guessed?

“We’re the People’s Front of Judea!”

Lol, I started out with a Datasette too. I feel the pain.

He was one of the writers.

continues to silently set up two daisychained Commodore 1541 drives

o7, RIP

An awesome life.

What federal laws were broken?

Already is I think. The term “AI slop” is thrown around so much that sometimes it seems to be used to mean “I don’t like this” and not anything AI related.

The main problem is defining it.

The second is that moderation for details like that gets complex.

If it bothers you enough, you can still report it even if there’s not a set rule. Enough people do that and it will be clear a rule or more enforcement is needed. Doesn’t change the points above, it’s not as easy as it was only a few years ago.

He couldn’t think of a better way to test Johnny’s parent’s faith.

My orange does that with the robot vacuum. The other cats ignore it, or move to where it can’t get to, but he has to watch it, even though it does the same thing it always does. Shiny thing.

They’ve done a good job mixing them into the results so that you might click on an AI generation, thereby increasing their numbers. The results can vary depending on the topic. Something easy to summarize from hits, it will look good. But I’ve seen some completely wrong results too, because even with the flooding of the “AI” label to make the ignorant think their computer is better, it’s still an LLM under the good with its limitations. Actual search algorithms worked better, bring them back.

And then something moves and both scatter in random directions, knocking things down.

It’s the Fediverse. You can literally run your own little instance on your own or or a friend’s computer and restrict only the ideas you want to talk about. When you say “this place” you mean everyone else since there’s not a single entity controlling the flow of discussion.

And if “we” sold out, I’d like to know how much each of us got. I seem to have missed a check.

It’s just not the disruptor it’s advertised to be (smart AI that is better than ten employees). The fact that it’s being shoved into everyone’s faces and threatening or actually replacing people’s jobs (inadequately or not) means it is a very large disruptor. Fixing the mess left if we ever get a chance to get back in control is going to be fun.

And it’s not just LLMs. The whole everything-in-a-cloud shit, the constant monitoring of clicks to determine productivity, the forced obsolescence of working equipment for new crap that doesn’t. We hit a peak in tech quality some time ago, the LLM factor is just another thing on the pile of junk.

You found the right place to post, I’ll give you that.

You’ve made some assumptions:

like nothing worthwhile is learned by anyone in the latter grades, or rather anything you need to know is finished by 10th.

that schools aren’t already rushing through things as it is so if two grades are removed something more will be cut out to make up for lost time.

all kids have a household that is open to that arraignment - and before you say it’s the law, I don’t know if that’s true, if it’s everywhere, and if it matters if the law isn’t enforced. Some kids will get kicked out, threatened for money, all sorts of less ideal situations.

there’s room in the market for more minimum wage people. you’re now flooding the low wage market with lots of kids, which is already a problem with ones who are just part time or casual labor.

having a kid stop education and then jump back in a few years later can be a setback to their motivation or vision of their future. I’m actually a fan of figuring out if a high school graduate might do better working a bit and maturing if they don’t have ideas, but others thrown into retail or warehouse or office might get the idea that maybe this is good enough and why go back to school.

those total wages are funny. Are you assuming a 40 hour week for a 16 year old? Do you know how businesses actually plan out their labor? With so many kids competing, if they all manage to get a job they’ll each have 5-10 hours a week. Maybe.

The only thing that I can agree with you in principle is that not every kid should go straight into higher learning, but that takes some evaluation to figure out the best path for each one. And I guess in some aspect I can agree that not as much is learned in school (not necessarily just high school) that could be, but cutting some grades is the totally wrong way to fix that. Even back when schools were better, so many kids went from high school right into college taking remedial courses so they would be at the right level of education. Less grades isn’t going to fix that at all.

We taught him that quid pro quo at worst just gives a label or two, not any consequences. So of course he’s going to use any powers he has to bend people to do what he wants.

Direct violence isn’t a great solution. I think Paul Rudd has had the answer for a while now, let nature decide.

The top .1% of US households hold over $20 trillion dollars in worth, and you’re talking about going after the million in retirement savings accounts that were built up to provide an income for the elderly (because social security alone isn’t enough, like it was supposed to be)? And 1M may not be enough if they live long enough or have serious medical issues because that’s another problem that we don’t dare fix with better distribution of resources.

Dad just rolls the dice, Mom picks how they land.