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I thought about the volatility, too. But here are some additional thoughts: Many AI uses are not that volatile. I had a 20 minute conversation today with some company's AI phone as…

I have a simple mind. I think of a company with 100 employees building a dozen houses at a time. That company could replace a six-person framing crew with a two-person, one-robot t…

Wallace Shawn was in on the joke when he expertly delivered the original line. It seems like Anthropic has spent years and billions of dollars to recreate the entire scene. But wha…

Be careful to properly identify the bad behavior. A customer who buys a product for less money than it cost to produce has not necessarily done anything wrong. They just took advan…

Or... use a protocol that hides packets in Minecraft traffic with out-of-band control through steganographic Discord audio. It's really slow, but its private.

You mean @fooco.com? Or @foocousa.com? Or @fooco.xyz? @fooco.ai? @foocoltd.net? @foo.co.uk? How would LinkedIn validate that your email domain belongs to the company you claim to w…

There's an endless list of improvements on a project like this. - Dragging a group should also drag the tables within the group. - It would be nice to be able to drag relationship …

This headline claims large-scale production, but the article never indicates what that would be in terms of quantity per year. Their motor is pretty cool. So are lots of other idea…

A lifetime ago some Linux advocates worried that the advent of Wine would reduce the incentive to produce native Linux apps. Today some people believe that the heroics of Valve and…

Incarcerating people is not free. And the more people you incarcerate the more you normalize incarceration and it loses its power of dissuasion. Surely it is worthwhile to encourag…

A lot of people on this site grew up lower middle class or below and benefited from the generosity of a lot of other people. But they leveraged that generosity into an education an…

I'm sure different jurisdictions are different, but many places don't allow random people to show up with a suspicious pile of metal. They have to file photo ids and sign a documen…

Considering that stolen wire carries a lot of risk, the market value is considerably less than normal scrap prices. I've seen thefts that required special equipment like cranes and…

Ignoring the obvious math problem here, I think the broader scope is important. Some of the point from preceding comments is that overall longterm output is not changing. So if som…

Do you find it controversial to have different tracks for Geometry, Swim, and Orchestra students? These are different types of students. Arithmetic, Algebra, and Statistics are dif…

No, we don't have calculators to do that. AI, maybe. But a calculator cannot form an equation out of a social context and solve the equation. If you bought 6 liters of soda for £3/…

Walter, I have a great deal of respect for you. Your math skills are much greater than my own. But you have stretched your statement too far. Flash cards can be very helpful in tea…

Budgets are a region-specific thing. In the USA there are approximately 50 million students aged 5-18. If you paid for each student to get 1:1 attention one day a week, you would n…

IMO, the best questions around revolutionizing school should address whether children should be coerced into learning something. It seems obvious to me that the answer should be ye…

It would be very interesting if you could accumulate privileges by stacking logins. So `login a; login b` gave you both a and b privileges. `logout a` would drop a's privileges but…

Thank you for this contribution. Your repo has a link to the standard[0], which might interest some people. It makes me unreasonably happy to know that this was funded out of Singa…

If you take a 1x dev and a 2x dev and apply an AI force multiplier, do you get a 10x dev and a 20x dev? Or do you get two 10x devs? If a human element is required to get value from…

During a recent semester final exam with fill in the blank questions, a student raised their hand to ask the teacher, "Do we get marked off for spelling?" The class was bewildered …

FWIW, I don't think climate change is a scam. I think humans need to be better stewards. I certainly don't think I "just know better". I think I have been pretty clear that I am no…

If it soothes you at all, you can think of it the other way around. All members of a society have a duty to pull their own weight. But everybody stumbles. So sometimes we have to p…