I only have anecdotal evidence of what homeschooled people are like. I’m sure there’s a ton of nuance and some homeschooled children are probably taught by extremely intelligent, capable parents and some homeschooled children are probably taught by people who are barely even qualified to be a parent much less a teacher.

That being said… Every homeschooled person I’ve ever met has been what can only be described as “off”. These people become adults with very skewed social skills and even worse, their sense of humor is completely stunted. I think a well-rounded person needs to be exposed to the rest of the world and the people in it starting from kindergarten, and homeschooling cannot reproduce that.

Yup. Self-driving cars will never truly be possible with unpredictable humans still driving the other cars on the road. Maybe if you could put a true AGI into a car.

We could have self-driving cars with today’s technology if the only other vehicles on the road were also self-driving and all interconnected via a mesh network with each other and the other critical road infrastructure like intersections.

But if on today’s roads if you want a truly Level 5 self-driving car where you get in the car in your driveway and say “take me to Burger King”, you’ll need an AGI in the car.

Oh man if this passes it will be a “stunning rebuke”. It won’t actually do anything because the President would still have to sign it.

Wow. That’ll show 'em.

“Outcry”, you say? Better watch out or they might get “slammed” or even “face calls for”…

Yes, 100% the technology and skill is available today to clone a human.

The ethics are dubious and nobody with that technology and skill is going to attempt it. They’re working on lab grown meat and replacement transplant organs.

I don’t think assuming that NIMBYs don’t want something in “their backyard” for moral reasons is the right take. NIMBYs by definition are selfish and just don’t want whatever it is near them. It’s “Not In My BackYard”.

The places in these red states are probably more than happy to have some more ICE mega-prisons, just in somebody else’s backyard.

The Military Industrial Complex has been normalized over centuries. Humanity just can’t stop killing each other. It’s an instinct that evolved to be helpful to survival at one point thousands of years ago but may actually mean the end of humanity soon.

AI and all of the resources it consumes have not yet been normalized to anywhere near the level of “Defense”.

Give it time and average humans will care just as little about all the resources consumed by AI as they care about all the resources consumed by war. Unfortunately I seriously doubt that it will go the other way around and humans will suddenly start caring more about the resources consumed by the Military Industrial Complex. That ship has sailed…

I’m replying from a Nothing CMF Phone 2 Pro.

The phone itself is responsive. The software is clean. The Camera is pretty mediocre. There is no wireless charging.

I would prefer a phone with a better camera and wireless charging but that’s easily 2x to 3x the price. I always just but unlocked phones so this was a good mid-quality option.

How about the color corrected version?

Or is the original color variation part of the vibe?

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Yes and no. Just like John Wick still had his hitman tools hidden in his house, tech workers who say they want to buy a farm and be a luddite will not be able to resist having a hidden server closet in their farmhouse.

Yes. This.

Say what you mean and mean what you say.

If you’re romantically interested in someone, say “hey, I’m romantically interested in you”.

Do not have a “crush”, do not have a friend you’re secretly in love with, do not secretly pine for anyone. It is not interesting, it does not make you stronger, you are not the protagonist in a romance novel, and you are dumb if you want to try to “save our friendship”.

If the other person is not interested, say “Thank you for your honesty. It’s been nice knowing you” and move on with your life. Stop wasting time. Life is too short.

Say what you mean and mean what you say. Don’t waste precious time on imaginary scenarios.

Not at all.

By calling for education and healthcare to be free, you’re voluntarily giving ammunition to politicians that they can use to sway low-information voters.

If every person who supported public education and public healthcare stopped calling it free right now, the people against these public services would still call them free. Because they want it to sound like people are trying to get something for nothing. They like it when we call it free.

Calling something free just conforms to the narrative that education and healthcare are something you would have to pay for in the first place. Why would you ever have to pay for a basic human right?

Disclaimer: I 100% support “free” healthcare and “free” education.

Being a teacher is a job. Being a college professor is a job. Being a nurse is a job. Being a janitor for a college campus is a job. People need money and benefits to do jobs. We’ve not yet achieved a post-scarcity economy where people can work without being reimbursed for their efforts.

Anyone who labels the goal of providing publicly-funded education or publicly-funded healthcare as “free” is either arguing in bad faith or too naive to understand what the goal should be. As a society we should provide public services, such as education and healthcare, to all humans who ask for it. For the good of all humans. But it’s something we all have to collectively fund.

Do not discard advice from older people because you think “the world has changed” and old people are out of touch.

ALL the advice that the older people in my life gave me in my teens about money/college/jobs/people/relationships was right, but I refused to listen to any of it because they were old and didn’t understand my life.

Don’t force yourself to learn every life lesson the hard way, like I did.

You’ll probably learn everything the hard way…but I tried to tell you.

Just straight up atrophied. Gone. Shriveled up like a raisin. Shriveled up like an old mans dusty balls.

I don’t think we’re any closer to AGI due to LLMs. If you take away all the marketing misdirection, to achieve AGI you would have to have artificial rational thought.

LLMs have no rational thought. They just don’t. That’s not how they’re designed.

Again, I could be wrong. If so, I was always in support of the machines.

If/when we actually achieve Artificial Intelligence, then maybe it would be a concern.

What we have today are LLMs which are big dumb parrots that just say things back to you that match a pattern. There is no actual intelligence.

Calling our current LLMs “Artificial Intelligence” is just marketing. LLMs have been possible for a while but until recently we just didn’t have the processing power at the scale we have now.

Once everyone realizes they’ve been falling for a marketing campaign and that we’re not very much closer to AI than we were before LLMs blew up, then LLMs will just become what they actually are: a tool that enhances human intelligence.

I could be wrong though. If so, I, for one, welcome our new AI overlords.

Found the IT “Rockstar”.