Rhaedas

It's just not the disruptor it's advertised to be (smart AI that is better than ten employees). The fact that it's being shoved into everyone's faces and threatening or actually replacing people's jobs (inadequately or not) means it is a very large disruptor. Fixing the mess left if we ever get a chance to get back in control is going to be fun.

And it's not just LLMs. The whole everything-in-a-cloud shit, the constant monitoring of clicks to determine productivity, the forced obsolescence of working equipment for new crap that doesn't. We hit a peak in tech quality some time ago, the LLM factor is just another thing on the pile of junk.

You found the right place to post, I'll give you that.

You've made some assumptions:

like nothing worthwhile is learned by anyone in the latter grades, or rather anything you need to know is finished by 10th.

that schools aren't already rushing through things as it is so if two grades are removed something more will be cut out to make up for lost time.

all kids have a household that is open to that arraignment - and before you say it's the law, I don't know if that's true, if it's everywhere, and if it matters if the law isn't enforced. Some kids will get kicked out, threatened for money, all sorts of less ideal situations.

there's room in the market for more minimum wage people. you're now flooding the low wage market with lots of kids, which is already a problem with ones who are just part time or casual labor.

having a kid stop education and then jump back in a few years later can be a setback to their motivation or vision of their future. I'm actually a fan of figuring out if a high school graduate might do better working a bit and maturing if they don't have ideas, but others thrown into retail or warehouse or office might get the idea that maybe this is good enough and why go back to school.

those total wages are funny. Are you assuming a 40 hour week for a 16 year old? Do you know how businesses actually plan out their labor? With so many kids competing, if they all manage to get a job they'll each have 5-10 hours a week. Maybe.

The only thing that I can agree with you in principle is that not every kid should go straight into higher learning, but that takes some evaluation to figure out the best path for each one. And I guess in some aspect I can agree that not as much is learned in school (not necessarily just high school) that could be, but cutting some grades is the totally wrong way to fix that. Even back when schools were better, so many kids went from high school right into college taking remedial courses so they would be at the right level of education. Less grades isn't going to fix that at all.

We taught him that quid pro quo at worst just gives a label or two, not any consequences. So of course he's going to use any powers he has to bend people to do what he wants.

Direct violence isn't a great solution. I think Paul Rudd has had the answer for a while now, let nature decide.

The top .1% of US households hold over $20 trillion dollars in worth, and you're talking about going after the million in retirement savings accounts that were built up to provide an income for the elderly (because social security alone isn't enough, like it was supposed to be)? And 1M may not be enough if they live long enough or have serious medical issues because that's another problem that we don't dare fix with better distribution of resources.

Dad just rolls the dice, Mom picks how they land.

The look on his face says he's over it anyway.

Incredible book. Takes a chapter or two to get used to the writing style (2d person present tense if I recall).

Correction: 3rd person. Somehow the present tense throws a different reading rhythm that you have to get into first.

At a very minimum you could use the research bases at Antarctica as an example and give the same objections and same reasons for having a Moon base with similar number of people. Exploitation of resources makes even the worst places suddenly desirable, so that's the next question - does the Moon have resources for us, now or for future need? I think it could, and it's a great place to launch raw material from vs. Earth. Would it ever be a large settlement though, I doubt it.

I've always been a proponent of Gerard O'Neill's vision (The High Frontier). Why spend so much effort to escape from a gravity well to then go back to any other gravity well with a different and hostile environment (like Mars). Once you're in orbit, you're halfway to everywhere else, you just need enough delta-v and time. Space settlements would be a larger investment than we've ever done before, but once started they would multiply and return so much more.

Caveat, this is my past self talking. I now think the window of doing such things has closed on us, ironically when we need it the most. Such as removing eggs out of one basket that's dying, moving industry out of the biosphere it's choking, giving a new goal for humanity that all could participate and create their own worlds. It was a nice vision though, we could have done a lot.

Apple has the challenge to show that people will confuse the two brands. They can pay for good lawyers, but that's an uphill climb.

Theres no way in a million years we'd ever vote to do something as stupid as

Saying that in a politics forum is funny. Plus, what if it becomes a federal law? Doesn't matter what your local thinks.

The fact that the paper is partially crumpled adds so much to it.