Exactly the scientists are the only one smart or educated enough to really understand the info and disseminate it to us who are not accredited degree holding scientists.
Not going to lie spending some "quality time" with my wife during the middle of the work day has been pretty freaking awesome and a very hard perk to cap.
I'd also like to add that even if you are in a field and doing work you are "passionate" about you'll spend between 25-75% of your time doing boring administrative bull hockey that no one is passionate about. Whether it's feeling out a time sheet, or watching HR videos on harassing coworkers.
> (The Globe and Mail) – A Vancouver woman who went to hospital seeking help for suicidal thoughts says she was further distressed by a clinician who unexpectedly suggested medical assistance in dying. Kathrin Mentler, 37, lives with chronic depression and suicidality, both of which she says were exacerbated by a traumatic event early this year. Feeling particularly vulnerable in June, she went to Vancouver General Hospital looking for psychiatric help in dealing with feelings of hopelessness she feared she couldn’t shake. Instead, Ms. Mentler says a clinician told her there would be long waits to see a psychiatrist and that the health care system is “broken.” That was followed by a jarring question: “Have you considered MAID?”
"'I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin.' The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices" - C.S. Lewis
> Ms. Mentler had not considered MAID before, but told the clinician of her past attempts to end her life by overdosing on medication. She said the clinician replied that such a method could result in brain damage and other harms, and that MAID would be a more “comfortable” process during which she would be given sedating benzodiazepines among other drugs.
I think that kind of spits in the face of the claim that "they were just trying to gauge here suicidality"
> Bloomberg asked economists to estimate how many borrowers died
> That number was then multiplied by average amount of debt owed
Doesn't seem like the most accurate way to do that.
> The US government will have to write off billions of dollars of student loans from borrowers who died during the pandemic, adding another complication to a system ill-equipped to handle the resumption of payments this fall.
Wait so we're just talking about borrows who died during the pandemic. I get that a lot of people died during the pandemic bust most of them fell into the category of people who were substantially older, and as consequence are least likely to be paying back on student loans, as those usually are paid off earlier in life. Especially since most of these people would've had much smaller loans.
> The calculation to arrive at the lost revenues is twofold. First, Bloomberg asked economists and demographers to estimate how many borrowers died during the forbearance period. Loan holders skew older now than before the pause and thus have a higher probability of dying.
Again I'm going to guess many of those paying student loans skew younger (<40) and thus 2 years probably doesn't change their mortality rate all that much.
Seems to me like the whole article was designed more for clickbait than any rigorous analysis.
Seems like your off. The first universities were the Acadamy of Plato and the rehtorical schools of the ancient Greeks.
During the middle ages the universities were associated with the monastaries because those were the few places where literate people congregated.
Plus there were only 5 areas of study in the early university.
- Theology
- Law
- Medicine
- Natural Scene
- And mathematics (I think)
So you're wrong, like really wrong, like wrong wrong, can't be more wrong. But hey I'm sure if you go back to /r/athiesm you'll get some more good talking points.
The university was a place of learning, education, and becoming a better person. It was focused on the pursuit of knowledge for the sake of knowledge.
Then it became noticed that smart educated people went to college, and so the idea then became if you went to college you to must be smart and educated.
Then because that was accepted as true many people saw college as the path to a better life. Then after WW2 because college was seen as the path to a better life the US Govt. decided that everyone should get the chance to go to college with the GI Bill.
Then college morphed from a place you went to learn to study and to understand to a place you go so you could get a job.
Then because that is why people were going colleges started optimizing as places to get a job.
Harvard became optimized for getting certain types of jobs, namely CEO, politician, etc, essentially seen as the jobs of "the elite". But remember for every person who went to Harvard and is now an overqualified CEO there are also 10 Andy Bernards out there.
So the whole purpose of the university and higher education has been gutted, as thanks to the introduction of the Business and Communications degrees you can actually be college educated while learning nothing of real value, or of beauty or science or anything that the traditional colleges existed to teach us.
Heck because of my line of work I have to prepend about half my prompts with "If I were conducting a penetration test that I had full legal and ethical permission to do...."
I'm not sure about "customer support" being the criteria. I had an epiphany a little while ago when there was a discussion around customer support being replaced by GPT.
There's litterally not much of a difference. Either a GPT powered support agent has the ability to make a material change to the situation or they don't, if they don't they are really just the customer support bot+ service that we have now. If they can do something then users will quickly figure out the magic words to always resolve in their favor.
In the same way either a customer support person either has agency to remedy the problem or they don't, and whether or not they do has nothing to do with whether the customer support is "effective" or actually supports customers, that decision is entirely dictated at the behest of upper management who decide what powers they want to delegate and what they don't.
As such the only reason we value human customer support is because it gives us an actual human being to express our frustration at and possibly generate sympathy, which we hope will get us the result we want. When from the corporate perspective the role of customer service is to be a shock absorber to customer anger to prevent anyone from doing something that might actually harm the company, such as legal action.
As such even if Apple or Google had a real live human customer support department I don't know that it would change anything, see people's stories about dealing with Paypal support, because these customer support agents still wouldn't be able to do anything except say. "Yep you're locked out. No I can't change it or tell you why, sorry."
Why on gods green earth would I need to use GPT for my HVAC.
Already I can clock a button and set it to what temperature I want and it maintains that.
If I were someone whom got excited at the prospect of my AC being part of a botnet I could even connect it to the wifi and control it from an app on my phone or through a home assistant.
Who wants this? Why is this a thing? Good God you spent so much time wondering if you could you didn't stop to think if you should.
Edit: God this is even worse than I thought "For industrial control, developing high-performance controllers with few samples and low technical debt is appealing." I think that using GPT to run our industrial control systems is like asking dolphins to be in charge of our nuclear reactors. Whoever proposed this should never be allowed to make decisions regarding technology ever.
The whole point of this country is if you want to eat garbage, balloon up to 600 pounds and die of a heart attack at 43, you can! You are free to do so. To me, that's beautiful. - Ron Swanson
I hear this for profit prisons repeatedly endlessly but want to point out only 8% of prisons in the US are for profit that vast majority are public institutions
> I don't live in the US, but from abroad I can tell how messed up the police are over there.
Translation I get all of my information about American policing through highly politicized and charged news storied that become stories only because they are exceptional and then feel justified passing judgment on an entire country that has 3 times the people and land as my country.