Nobody wants to go back to using a sextant stuck through of a hole in the cockpit. It wasn't very accurate. The more accurate methods used over land require artificial external references (LORAN and later VOR)

I imagine flying over particularly active areas of the earth's crust (volcanos, subduction zones) will also affect accuracy. Still, absolute navigation at that accuracy without artificial references is really good.

When I buy shit from Amazon, does Amazon also charge me for the increased infrastructure expenses required to deliver the stuff to me? Warehouses, drivers, trucks, all that?

No, of course not, that's something they figure into the price in the first place.

Recognizing the need to improve is the first step. Next is America has to want to change.

Business and authoritarianism working hand in hand. That's nothing new.

All my best jobs I got because I knew someone.

Go straight to their reception desk and ask for a job application. Employers will respect that you're serious about getting a job. Make sure you firmly shake hands, to show that you are excited about the opportunity.

That Boomer advice never actually worked for me. Not even 30 years ago.

I also never bothered to create a different cover letter on my résumé, despite numerous people telling me that's critical. I just listed all the programming languages I knew, and then filled 4 or 5 pages with descriptions of my job history. Recruiters just feed these documents into a machine to harvest search keywords, and during the face-to-face interview it is convenient for the interviewer to pick any topic on the resume and talk about it instead of having to guess at what you might know.

The responsibility to demonstrate providence should fall on the one making the model. And be independently confirmed. Transparency is the key to making most things fair, but businesses really hate exposing how they operate.

Because homelessness would require the redistribution of wealth. California isn't quite as communist as people like to pretend. We're not going to take property from landlords and developers and give it to poor people that have no jobs and no lobbyists.

How it really works here with CAISO is they cut my solar power from the grid during a rolling blackout. So that I have plenty of power that I can't sell, and my neighbors have no power for their air conditioner.

The AI datacenters start up the diesel and natural gas turbines in response to the planned outage, they often get an advanced and automated notice.

In a sane world we would have solved that with fines and prison time.

It's too late. Journalists and entrepreneurs already treat LLMs as A.I. And they are ready to hand over human-level responsibilities to the magic 8-ball machine.

A.I. is ordinary management stupidity in a shiny new package.

Let's put the algorithms for managing our critical infrastructure into a black box that cannot be audited, analyzed, or duplicated. What could possibly go wrong!

There's no right to individual identity, even though there ought to be. We don't really recognize that people are unique and that their uniqueness has intrinsic value that belongs to the individual. We live in a world where nearly anything is copied and sold, and we have to wait around for a legal framework to protect ownership. Unfortunately the people writing the laws are the people doing the stealing.

And frankly, our culture is too immature and wholly unprepared for much of the technology that has arrived this millennium. There are numerous problems that technology has caused society that we still haven't handled adequately. We either need to step up our game, or pump the brakes. Burying our head in the sand isn't an option. (how many clichéd metaphors can I mix?)