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Hypothetically if universities were a place for knowledge and truth instead of vocational training then would it really matter what my major was? Why would Philosophy still be a be…

Like, I imagine if I moved to a country and couldn’t do the B1 things in their language, I would have daily obstacles doing basic life things.

I appreciate your perspective, but I was curious what B1 proficiency actually entails and this is what I found [1]: - understand the main points of clear standard speech on familia…

Why is downsizing and an employee’s role no longer being cost effective for the business not considered “cause” for firing?

It’s funny that you used traffic signals as an example of overcomplicating a problem with AI because there turns out to be a YC funded startup making AI powered traffic lights: htt…

If the supply of doctors wasn’t artificially suppressed as mentioned by comments above, it’s likely that wages would go down. Whether that would make things overall more or less co…

I’m just a layman, but why can’t they increase the orbital radius to solve this problem? Like, if the current “layer” is too full, have the new satellites orbit further out?

With the direction of OpenAI, hyper personalized ads inserted directly into chat and their app experiences could be a path. Not saying it will work, but they’re definitely explorin…

Not all AI investment is private. You could argue that public companies like Google, Meta, and Microsoft have had their stock appreciate at least partly because of the AI frenzy.

Until recently I had only ever been to one baseball game.. saw the Jays when I was 10. I remember falling asleep at the game because it was so slow and boring, and never really wat…

Can confirm.. I got access to the app yesterday and I have used it exclusively for making drafts and sending them to my friends without posting.

I have to disagree with the author's argument for why hallucinations won't get solved: > If there were a way to eliminate the hallucinations, somebody already would have. An army o…

I think that statement is true for a lot of middle class people too.

The article says that more juniors + AI was the early narrative, but where does that come from? Everything I’ve read has been the opposite. I thought people from the beginning saw …

Interesting. I think this gets at guywithhat’s sibling comment: > you'd have to do a study to show that the talent couldn't have been trained in the US, and that an increased suppl…

I’m sorry but I don’t follow. What bearing does the 25th percentile H1B wage have on suppressing wages in a particular role or specialty?

You seem to be suggesting that the H1B pulls wages up because the median pay is higher than the median overall pay in the country? That’s not a valid comparison, you’d have to comp…

If you read the article you would see their plan is to apply the fee on entry to the US, after the candidate has been selected by the lottery.

> plenty of apps request photo permissions that shouldn’t need it True, and this could maybe be solved by better app store review. Every app submitted to the app store is reviewed …

Democracy seems increasingly defined by the citizens opposing some measure, and the politicians going ahead with it anyway.