If you live together with your kids you should stay together, and even get married. It's worth it for their sake. Bitcoin is not everything in life...

I'm actually much more supportive of rote memorization / drilling than I used to be. Especially for lower SES kids.

Pursuit of higher order thinking is good, but higher order thinking is made easier when you have a large knowledge base to work with, that you can call up quickly, evne if you don't fully understand all of it.

I agree with you. But I'd basically put that on the embrace side

Something that bugs me is whether colleges should educate kids to do useless work that is nevertheless compensated well by the market because of government distortions. The formerly well paid DEI consultants are an example. But also things like training kids to do political advocacy which is mostly about fighting over surplus rather than creating surplus.

As a well known econ professor likes to say, "do you create surplus or do you just move it around?"

Get your own pleblab! LOL

I think higher education has always been mid-tier in terms of technology catch up. We're slower than most tech companies, but we're faster than some of the legacy dinosaur companies, and of course faster than government agencies

In my circles there is a lot of interest in Bitcoin, but little action. When I tell people about it, people usually react positively, but I don't think they go home and look up how to buy bitcoin. I think it's because I don't usually say "You should buy it", I just try to explain what it is and why some people think it's important.

Yeah, that's true. There's a word for this when it comes to stocks but I forgot what it was. The idea basically being that if you want to bet on a certain event (i.e. increased demand for patriot missiles), you want to invest in companies that only do that thing

Scandal seems to be following Shohei. What's going on? Either he's surrounded by grifters, or he himself is a greedy bastard. Hard to imagine the latter given how much money he already has on his contract, but you never know.

Then why is my LMT stock not doing so hot?

how many jars you opened for women in the past year? haha

iirc, Oligarchy in Civ 6 gives +5 strength to your melee units.

It might not matter in the aggregate, but I do think some people may be better suited to home schooling than others. In the end, each parent has to assess what kind of environment would be best for their kids.

Only one more day? I thought the deadline is August 31

Yeah scalability is the main issue. I'm sure if I had 1:1 time with a student I can teach them a lot of stuff, even while letting them use AI. It's just that I can't replicate that across 50+ students

My wife and I are actually leaning more and more towards home schooling because of these issues.

Yeah, that's the million dollar question. I don't think anyone knows exactly just yet. But I think the example of your kids just accepting the AI's first answer is what educators are afraid of. Will they learn how to think critically about AI responses if they've never searched for sources or tried to synthesize research on their own?

FML

Monarchy beats democracy when the monarch is moral and wise. Democracy beats monarchy when the monarch is immoral or foolish