@binarybits At least they acknowledge that they are slow.
The DMV just gave me a dirty look when I pointed out how slow they were.
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For the last year, the DC Council has said it's waiting for a DDOT report before it considers legalizing Waymo. The report came out this week. Here's what it says on page iii.
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@griswold @Principal_Jon Why stop at 5th grade?
One of the few studies I have heard of showed that HS teachers without education degrees outperformed teachers with education degrees.
The reason was that some of them without education degrees used to work in the field they were now teaching.
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@Principal_Jon Removing credential requirements for PK–5 teachers is the fastest way to increase teacher quality.
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As a principal, I would hire a mom over a recent education grad.
Teaching credentials are overrated.
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@LoganDobson I think it is telling that AI doomers worried about jobs are not in favor of reducing labor market friction. It is as if they don't want people to get new, better jobs.
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AI doomers: AI will destroy jobs
Companies building AI: we will pay for you to become a fiber technician at a data center because we are creating too many jobs
Engineering at Meta@Meta_Engineers
Today we're announcing LevelUp: a free, four-week training program that takes people with no prior experience and prepares them to work as fiber technicians on data center construction sites across the US. We built this program with CBRE because the fiber technician field, and the broader construction industry, is facing a nationwide shortage at a time when data center demand is higher than ever. How it works: 🔧 Classroom instruction, hands-on labs + team activities covering transferable technical skills 🎓 Graduates have the opportunity to work at Meta's US construction sites through our contractor network 🤝 Open to everyone from recent high school grads to mid-career professionals Since 2010, Meta's data center projects have supported 30,000+ skilled trade jobs during construction + 5,000+ permanent operational roles. LevelUp is about building the pipeline to keep that going. Learn more: go.meta.me/0eb3f6
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@jmhorp @TonyWellin66170 It was mostly made by his apprentices. He was about 70 during construction.
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This was a typical vacation home that a simple draftsman from rural Wisconsin with no college degree could afford in the Great Depression
Midwest Modern@JoshLipnik
Pool at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West
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@cafreiman I never expected Bernie Sanders to call for reducing labor market friction because of fears that AI would dramatically shift the demand for different jobs.
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You’d think that he’d have a good take once in a while, purely by accident—and yet
Sen. Bernie Sanders@SenSanders
In the 1990s, the working class of this country was told that unfettered free trade would create millions of new jobs and raise wages. As many of us understood then, that claim was a lie. Now they’re being sold the same false promises about AI.
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@binarybits @alexolegimas Most people reveal that they don't care about jobs. Instead they have a pet social policy and "they took our jobs" is just and excuse.
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@binarybits @alexolegimas I think the best retort is that if someone is worried about AI taking jobs, they should be fighting to remove friction in the labor market so that people can get new jobs.
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This essay by @alexolegimas is the best thing I've ever read on why AGI won't lead to mass unemployment. A compelling argument backed up by substantial empirical data.
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@Noahpinion Why?
Even if you attracted "a better caliber of teachers," it still doesn't:
- Increase teacher effort
- Get better student outcomes
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Well that's sad.
But the main point of raising teacher salaries is to attract a better caliber of teachers to the profession.
Marc Porter Magee 🎓@marcportermagee
What happens when you double teacher salaries? - You get more satisfied teachers - You do not get greater teacher effort - You do not get better student outcomes
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@binarybits I remember the DOD banning USB sticks around 2008. It was a huge pain in the butt for those of us making OS images for the DOD. We had to burn a CD for every iteration.
Turns out we were infecting Iranian centrifuges with Stuxnet using USB sticks at the same time.
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If you think this kind of thinking is paranoid, you should read up on the kinds of things our NSA does when given half an opportunity.
Palmer Luckey@PalmerLuckey
This is a massive and growing problem for American national security. Unbelievable amounts of sensitive and classified information is captured, scraped, and sent back to foreign nations. And users have no idea. Nobody expects that their TV or monitor is a surveillance tool. When I have joked that Smart TVs should be illegal, I am only half-joking.
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@RichardHanania There is a 1% chance of someone with 10 kids having 9 boys and 1 girl. I am sure there are more than 100 people on TikTok with 10 kids.
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Isn’t this gender ratio pretty much mathematically impossible?
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@robinhanson I suspect they are worried that the class might be hard. They may have had a poor HS econ teacher, too.
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"my students … are arriving to campus not only skeptical of free markets, but openly embracing democratic socialist ideas. … Up to 3/4 of college students never take an economics course"
Do they or their advisors avoid econ, fearing it would undermine their socialist ideals?
Marian L Tupy@Marian_L_Tupy
"My students are embracing democratic socialism because they’ve never been taught how capitalism works." wsj.com/opinion/free-e…
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You haven’t truly experienced all that security theatre has to offer until you’ve taken formula through airport security
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@emi_305 @Noahpinion If we are worried about losing jobs, we should be making it as easy as possible to find new jobs.
We should remove laws restricting hiring and firing, collective bargaining, professional licensing, renting and evicting, real estate development, and migration.
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@Noahpinion what’s the solution? ai companies paying electricity, issuing UBI, buying into starter homes? something like that would drive good PR
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I don't think geographic concentration is the problem. People are blocking data centers in their own back yards. It's the overall message of the AI industry -- "we're trying to make you worthless" -- that people resent.
Aziz Sunderji@AzizSunderji
AI is getting some very bad PR. When an industry concentrates itself in a few enclaves, it becomes easy to resent.
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@KernelArray @cremieuxrecueil I'm not convinced that's true. I favor deregulating nuclear power and maybe you're correct, but I wouldn't be so confident. cato.org/working-paper/…
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Daily reminder: Nixon wanted to be the American Messmer, constructing a fleet of 1,000 nuclear plants, making American a clean country from then all the way through to today.
If he had his way, we would have defeated climate change AND electricity bills.
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@AlexNowrasteh @cremieuxrecueil The NRC was created by an act that Ford signed into law in 1974.
Before the NRC, nuclear power was dirt cheap and getting cheaper. It was about $0.03 / kWh (in today's $). That is as cheap as coal has ever been.
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@sharintaint @JohnJSSoriano @AlexNowrasteh Houston is known for having terrible weather for half the year, too. Oppressive heat and humidity instead of clouds and light rain.
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@JohnJSSoriano @AlexNowrasteh And nobody wants to deal with constant rain. It's successful but not desirable.
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Why does nobody care about Seattle?
Misha G.@tastybits
Houston economy is growing at 10.6%. That’s remarkable at this size.
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@bryan_caplan I think the hard part of the question is about how fast Congress could act. He only had a few more days in his term. The impeachment process has a lot of steps, and there was a lot of other stuff going on then (not counting the funeral for the hypothetical Congressman).
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If one or more Congressmen had actually been killed in January 6, what is the probability that Trump would have been removed from office as a result?
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People who say "we need to figure out a plan to prevent AI from putting people out of work" don't seem to understand that what they're really saying is "we need a plan to ensure AI doesn't drive economic growth." They're two sides of the same coin.
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@CatoEdwards @cafreiman Ironically, the policies were created because they thought water was scarce.
When lawyers and politicians try to divide up resources, that is what you get. It's about time we kick them out of power.
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@cafreiman Exactly Chris. The American West faces a growing water crisis because we are not market pricing it, particularly the vast subsidized amounts used for irrigation.
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Pricing water (for example) is a good idea because it incentivizes the conservation and expansion of existing supply.
Samantha Smith@SamanthaTaghoy
“Water, soil, and oxygen should not be infinitely accessible. They are assets that should be included in global economic balance sheets.” This is not satire. The World Economic Forum wants to monetise breathing.
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