Just because it can string words together in a convincing way does not mean it is thinking. The system is designed to make you dependent on itself, and optimizes for that only. Stop worshipping the golden calf of LLMs and free yourself.

Two things can be true at the same time: we need an educated public, and public schools are a failing monopoly. Vouchers solve both problems by letting families choose the best school for each child and forcing schools to compete for dollars.

If you want these things, give every family a voucher for the school of their choice that fits each child. Public school lock in is the same as any monopoly- a race to the bottom on quality. You can have both: an educated general public and school choice.

Sorry, that's not what I meant. If a predator sets up a 'child' account, won't that account be able to talk to other real children?

If I'm a 'parent' and I make an account for my 'child', how do they know? I fail to see how this will deter predators.

One of the major problems in a world of convenience foods - fast food, Uber eats, prepackaged meals - is that all those things make you fat and sick. If you want to help the next generation maintain their health, learning to cook is a fantastic and cheap way to do it.

AI is not delivering on it's promises, and we're figuring that out. The market is due for a serious correction.

Electric vehicles are a great idea, and battery technology is catching up to market expectations. However, trying to force everyone into an electric vehicle earlier than they can afford or they want is a recipe for disaster. Put the money into technology research and stop trying to force the issue at the government level.

First, I think Comet is a stupid, brain-smoothing security risk.

Second, trying to tell me the customer I can't use Perplexity to shop is like saying I can't use Safari or Chrome or whatever. Sure you could put technical roadblocks in place to prevent it, but it's stupid for Amazon to try and enforce this.

Did you type that comment from Netscape Navigator? No, because tools change all the time - but the skills to integrate knowledge last a lifetime.

Palantir-specific skills - like data analysis, machine learning / AI, and a government security clearance? I'm pretty sure with a start at Palantir you could get a job almost anywhere.

Many people think of envy as being jealous and wanting what others have. In reality, envy is sorry at another persons good and delight in their misfortune.

Your TDS has made you really envious. Despite a great economy and widespread prosperity, you need him to fail to satisfy your envy. Your demand for failure outweighs the supply so you invent or exaggerate failure to make up the balance.

Many people think of envy as being jealous and wanting what others have. In reality, envy is sorry at another persons good and delight in their misery. Having listened to libs talk about Trump they share a recurring fantasy that he would destroy the whole country and economy- they desire reality ti match their envious thoughts. They want misfortune on Trump and all his supporters. It is envy in a highly concentrated and corrosive form.

People vastly underestimate how little data we have on autonomous vehicles. For context, we drive about 3,300,000,000,000 miles a year in the United States.

All autonomous vehicles across the entirety of the last 10 years have only driven about 200,000,000 miles- six orders of magnitude less. That is the equivalent of driving from your house to the corner store and saying youâ(TM)re as good a driver as someone who has crossed the United States 12 times.

If you simply look at the raw probability of having a novel situation or potentially fatal situation over 1,000,000 times more miles, autonomous vehicles have not even scratched the surface. We need to be very, very careful about the idea that we have mastered autonomous vehicles and should roll them out en masse on highways.

That makes for a pretty philosophical argument over drinks, but no one really acts as though the universe is random. Even the fact that you felt the need to explain your point of view to us shows that you believe there is an order to the universe and want to explain it to us.