Di hard

It’s funny that the “correct “way to respond to authoritarian attacks always begins with recognizing and admitting all the things the authoritarians are right about, and knocking that off. That’s always step one.

Then the authoritarians are satisfied, right?

Bury the powerlines

By the time these experiments make it to human trials, the risks tend to be extremely well understood, even in our non-utopian society.

I think yes. The benefit to society would be easier to apply to the risk / “reward” balance.

Utopian society just means that the usual, cynical motivations for participation in any activity are basically eliminated.

Subjects would be willing, and fully understand the system and risks. They wouldn’t need compensation, because their needs are otherwise met.

Grocery shopping on a budget is a daily exercise in home economics fiction

I love a good typo

Man, I just knocked a solid millimeter of dust off a buster album the other day. Sitting there, I actually asked myself out loud “I wonder how many human beings actually remember this band?” fully convinced that the answer was quite small.

To get past the AI problem we either need to build some ludicrously expensive countermeasure (and charge students for the privilege) or simply do what we used to do.

You can assign online homework credit, but the bulk of their grade should probably come from something verifiable.

The solution (for math) is to not score online homework and only score in person quizzes and exams.

The solution for some writing-based classes is to adjust the credit / grading pie to include an in-class editing portion where they identify false statements, etc.