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Are we still doing this thing where we attribute success in one area to completely different fields? You may as well elect Opus 5.5, seen as it is already superhuman at certain tasks.

Google is catching up, not leading.

Yes, being surrounded by smart and motivated people is a huge bonus. But if your classmate doesn't even know fractions, it looks like you won't be getting that either.

There was nothing you couldn't have already learned from a book. Many professors were never even great at teaching and are employed for research.

Attending college as a student was always partly about status and once the standards of an institution drops so does the signal that comes from holding a degree. It is only natural that people will see college as less worthy of an investment.

We had an increasing cadence of releases for frontier models but got nothing in October. Opus 5.5 was released over a month ago and Fable has had no updates in a while, just sneak peeks of what they are achieving internally.

"Pacing the frontier" into a great depression. The safety maxxers will be the death of the field.

Don't get me wrong, I think we still need seniors who have engineering experience pre-AI and those with domain expertise. But the topic was entry level workers.

> If software students also take the time to master agentic development, the career opportunities opening up in large-scale orchestration of enterprise software creation will soon be immense, and carry the same high-salary dreams traditional software carried prior to a few months ago.

This is just based on nothing and is potentially really bad advice for young people.

>It has always struck me as absurd that America is so accessible to Chinese nationals.

This is what I was responding to. I'm trying to figure out how it is nonsense because India has a large population.

India already makes up like 70% of H1Bs.

Maybe monogamy is not natural for men?

China is high IQ. It is one of the top countries you will want to brain drain from.

There seems to be a direct correlation with how likely your game is to fail and how much virtue signalling is included.

Stepping outside and travelling really gives you a perspective on how much of a bubble online forums are.