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> But the shiny things keep the poorer parents and mediocre teachers happy while keeping down cost per lesson per child. Baltimore spends more per student than Switzerland. > As always the children of the rich and powerful get bespoke
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Iraq never had democracy before, while Venezuela was a pretty functioning democracy for half a century. And the civilizational distance between Venezuelans and democracy was quite a bit shorter than for people in Iraq. Even non-democratic c
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People who enjoy administrating rarely think you’re the “customer” lol.
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> I'll admit I am unsure how such individuals would be chosen. I imagine it would be prudent to learn what processes are used by other licensed professions when choosing such individuals. Licensing organizations disproportionately a
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The irony is that Soviets are famous for falling behind in computing because their 5 year plans failed to appreciate the importance.
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Thanks, that’s interesting to know. I don’t know much about LLMs so I use 5 because it’s a bigger number than 4.8.
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I use both Grok 4.5 and Opus 5. They’re both very good and Grok is faster and cheaper.
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The unelected bureaucracy was more like the chinese party system. The U.S. has a strong-president model by design: https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed70.asp . The check isn’t supposed to come from unelected bur
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Yeah. Technology and social change has done this all over the economy. E.g. from my dad's field, there's not enough public health people with field experience to replace the folks who are retiring. We have plenty of entry level
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Technology has been doing this for decades. I think a lot of our "K shaped economy" discourse is about the bifurcation of the upper middle class creating downwardly mobile educated young people. Nobody in my wife's immediate
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You mean the less uncertainty during World War I, World War II, or the Cold War?
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Why should we change the practice of putting people to work to build civilization when they’re at their physical and energetic peak? In his early 20s my dad helped overthrow the Pakistani government, and by his late 20s and early 30s he was
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> think we still have many high-IQ people on the web. Its just they are not making tiktoks. However, they are harder to find since the pool got bigger Yeah, that’s what I meant. Even in Tik Tok there’s a lot of very interesting history,
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We had “regulated media” before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hays_Code . Do you trust people to regulate your media? I don’t.
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16 year olds aren’t kids. My dad was in boarding school in bangladesh at that age working 16 hour days (which is why I don’t have to live there).
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“Unregulated media.” LOL.
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> citing an obscure provision of a 1996 immigration law There’s nothing “obscure” about it. The civil penalties come from Clinton’s signature 1996 immigration bill. Here’s Clinton’s signing statement: https://www.presidency.uc
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Being able to deal with “technical minutiae” is highly linked to intelligence. What you’re referring to is lacking social graces, which is different than lacking intelligence. Having a hobby that involved reasoning about abstract things li
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The top-down centralization of mid-20th century technologies wasn't caused by "money," it was caused by their technological nature. They inherently relied on limited radio spectrum that was doled out to specific companies by
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> The biggest presses, with the longest reach (daily newspapers) were often owned by the richest people. You're assuming that "rich" is the only relevant dividing line, which it isn't.
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> People who long for the web of the 90s, I always feel like they must not be very interesting. Imagine complaining that we can't go back to libraries of the 1970s when the ones today have 3D printers, DVDs to rent, etc. because &qu
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That was a temporary blip. Specific technologies facilitated an age of mass, top-down communications in the mid 20th century, just by virtue of how those technologies worked. It enabled a small group of people in charge of the radio/TV
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Sure, but we’re going to thrive more because of AI, just as we thrived more because of the Internet, cell phones, etc.
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You think the Biden administration lied about Iran trying to assassinate Trump?
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I don’t know what Iran expected for trying to assassinate Trump back in 2024: https://www.nbcnews.com/investigations/iran-assassination-pl... . Of all the people who weren’t just going to let that slide. Maybe they thou
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Yes, building public infrastructure generally involves paying private contractors to do it. Who do you think builds government buildings?
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That’s the opposite of NIMBYism. Public infrastructure getting built despite inconvenience to affected landowners.
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People need infrastructure. Data centers are infrastructure.
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Building stuff is good stewardship. We complain about NIMBYs. But with a few relatively modest regulations data centers can be quite friendly. They don’t generate traffic, congestion, etc. They don’t strain school or police infrastructure.
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Interesting. That usage is the opposite of “forever chemicals” though. Isn’t it a good thing GLP-1s don’t permanently change your body?

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