I'd argue any restriction on free flow of information is anti-capitalist. Copyright is actually antithetical to property rights, in that it restricts what a person can do with physical goods that they own:
I buy paper and toner. Now you're telling me that restricting what configurations of that toner and paper are allowed is pro-property rights? Do I really own the paper and toner if I can't configure them in any way I wish?
Agreed, certainly from the perspective of free market limited government intervention capitalism, government enforced restrictions on imaginary property are inconsistent.
I'd agree that on the colloquial use of capitalism to mean more just naked profit seeking, I think it is consistent to want the government to lend you it's police etc for free to protect profits and prevent competition.
Before covid we'd ask our kids what they did and we'd get the usual super brief explanation but would assume that kids just didn't want to go into detail or didn't remember. After covid, we realized that their answer was closer to the truth than all the learning we imagined in our heads.
To some degree elementary school has always been a large part daycare and small part teaching. But the one big change from my experience is that amount of standardized testing even 3rd graders do. Every month or two there's another day or two spent on testing and then several days before that getting them ready for it. I can't imagine being a teacher trying to craft lesson plans around all that.
Can confirm it’s terrible. Part of the reason my long-time teacher wife got out was that so little of the work is actually productively teaching and it’d gotten worse with each year.
The other reasons were… everything else. Consistently toxic work environments across several schools, a culture of “just do a little more—it’s for the kids!”, shit pay, low social standing, watching students have mental health crises or terrible troubles at home and occasionally kill themselves while not being able to do much about it, corrupt petty-dictator superintendents, constant flailing between expensive “frameworks” implemented so incompetently that they plainly have no hope of working right, et c. The small part of summer they’re actually off and not prepping for the next year was the only good thing about it, by the end. The insulting demands, organizational dysfunction, and lack of support during Covid was the final straw—for her and lots of others, now the field has a severe teacher shortage.
> To some degree elementary school has always been a large part daycare and small part teaching.
This was definitely a fashionable thing to say last decade. But in a post-Covid world where we’ve seen meaningful deficits in skills as a result of disruptions to in-person elementary school attendance, I think we should re-evaluate this prior. It seems evident that there’s a lot more going on in school than just babysitting.
it is weighing the cows more often to get them bigger. The over indexing on measuring via standardized tests is costing us so much. Teachers, more and more, teach a mile wide and an inch deep and teach to the test, only to have that information thrown out of everyone's brains to get ready for the next regurgitation of the previous couple of weeks.
Impressive how well schools are keeping up with preparing kids for the workplace. Amazon and others track bathroom visits, so it's clearly best to train these kids young to expect no privacy as they take breaks from learning how to be the best possible cog.
If I remember right there was a reaction time for the OpenAI team they could tweak, if I remember right it was around 200ms (and a short search I think confirms that).
The bot did perfectly dodge a skill that humans almost never dodged because it didn't have a good visual cue. Against the AI that skill became useless, really screwed the humans over and made it clear to everyone that the AI didn't really play with the same limitations as humans.
In the next game it played they had made it react even slower and then it no longer beat tournament teams.
thank you, this is great! it sounds like they're only targeting 1700°, though, which is a temperature that exotic resistive heating elements can reach. it's too bad they didn't include any kind of diagram
Legal barriers to entry and similar regulations are often the form entrenched players use to preserve their problem.
It's a hard balance to strike because the examples of harm from too little regulation make easy soundbites. But the costs of the certification are complex and difficult to quantify, albeit very real.
If you got a judgment, you would get a prompt response.
Problem you'd probably have is getting the judgment, if they show up at the hearing. Their clickwrap agreements are one barrier. Also, you have no relationship with them -- you weren't the customer (and if you were see point 1).
Would be interesting to see what type of claim would work. Maybe conversion (ie theft) if they delivered it to the wrong address. But if they just hold it at the depot, I don't know what claim you could make. Would probably have to take it up with the seller.
I buy paper and toner. Now you're telling me that restricting what configurations of that toner and paper are allowed is pro-property rights? Do I really own the paper and toner if I can't configure them in any way I wish?