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And we thought the world was changing fast in the es6 days of JavaScript.

We use to say “web development is changing fast” when a thing changed after two years, and now it looks like it was changing at a snail’s pace compared to AI.

If you have evidence of these conversations and so on then you can do a charge back on your credit card.

Yes! This is exactly how I feel.

I have fun ideas that are kind of complex and I can just experiment and see now with a couple spare hours on the weekend.

Trying to explain to my non software engineering friends that they could build any small app they have an idea for and they’re like I wouldn’t know how, and I’m like, you just ask and you can literally figure it out now so quick.

Maybe software engineers are the most excited and the most cynical.

I think fundamentally it is that. The ability to retain information.

Like given a specific task it can do a thing amazingly well, but can it recall a thing. Its memory seems like a giant filing cabinet and it has to go scan like 20 million tokens worth of memory to recover things previously talked about.

Human memory is more graph like, we don’t recall things exactly, but one thing links to another, we create a pattern of a thing, we mark what is important, and overtime what was important degrades or becomes less so.

I feel like what makes it lack intelligence is it never seems to learn. Like it kind of does, but then doesn’t persist once too many other things are learned.

I’m sure they’re probably working on this, but I feel like that is what I want far more than even better models, is a better memory system to recall and forget things that the models work on.

My point is more that as a parent I shouldn’t be forced to pay for an education i wouldn’t give my children.

Secular humanism not being a religion, does have a set of beliefs. It would seem unconstitutional if someone had to pay a teacher to teach my kids the Bible, or the Quran, and many things taught in government schools are counter to beliefs of religion.

I don’t see a solution to the problem that doesn’t cause crazy amounts of abuse other than the government completely gets out of education, or local communities/governments alone support it and the school matches the beliefs of the local community.

None of that seems plausible. So how do you respect the 1st amendment rights of people like the article talks about?

Not necessarily saying it is a religion, as much as there isn’t a neutral way to say you should educate people as if there is(are) no god(s).

So presuming it forces a set of beliefs on people based on an idea that there is no god that would be counter to their religious beliefs.

So I sympathize with the idea that a government school paid for by tax dollars, is violating 1st amendment rights.

But it would also violate 1st amendment rights if they took tax dollars and gave it to families who used it on a private religious education.

Or they could arbitrarily let parents pick whatever school they wanted, regardless of what it taught, but that is way too ripe for fraud.

Can anyone think of how a government could respect various religious beliefs while not advocating for one specific one (and let’s presume secular humanism is a type of religious belief), while maintaining tax funded education?

Is there a world where we look back at how AI usage is charged today and we equate it with how we had minutes on AOL and how absurd it seems looking back?

Overpopulation is not a problem.

Maybe in a couple countries. But not for the world, and not for the west and definitely not for America.

As the population has grown poverty has decreased.

If you’re talking about Pete Hegseth, he I think is CREC, and they are post-millenialists, which means they think more so that the earth will get better and better and should build things that last to welcome in Christ when he returns.

Yeah I agree.

Still would be very valuable to be able to read works that shaped western civilization in their original language, since a lot of nuance is lost translating to English. Just see how many crazy readings of the Bible people have (american evangelicals particularly ) because English can’t express the original idea in Greek well enough.

The classical school movement in America is growing quite rapidly, and so maybe we start to see it again?

My kids at least are all learning Latin, and later, Greek.

I love Costco. Jim Senegal (former CEO of Costco) is what I wish more CEOs were like.

I have a large family, so we buy almost everything at Costco.

When I was kid I was so mortified when my parents suggested to buy clothes at Costco.

Now I think half my clothes come from Costco.

I’ve used chatGPT to take silly ideas I had and make fairy tale like stories for my daughter that often have goblins and things like that in them.

Watch now it’s gonna be like weirdly not including them.

Gonna go and try to have it make me a story about a goblin and a pigeon and a raccoon and see what it does.