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Put the classes back in? When I was at school, there were "home economics" (cooking and sowing), "personal finance" (checkbooks and taxes), and things like woodworking. I think mechanics was a vo-tech thing.
I graduated a little over 10 years ago and home economics was gutted class that they stuck the sped kids, personal finance wasn't a class, and woodshop had so many pre-requisite classes that you weren't able to touch tools until senior year. Mechanics didn't exist in my school.
 
You don't have to roll back women being allowed to have bank accounts and have a career. No fault divorce would still be allowed, but either both agree and split 50/50 or the sole-leaver forfeits everything (maybe up to years living expenses to be nice). Marriage infidelity is fault for divorce and would tip the scales against the cheater.
Marriage is a matter that belongs to the states, so not sure what you want the feds to do about it. If you want change, you have to do it state by state. A lot of states have statutory schemes that spell out exactly how divorce works in relation to assets. Where it becomes murky is when children are involved, because the standard is almost always the best-interests-of-the-child standard, which just means they look at everything possible and make a decision. But if your state has a scheme that says "if you're married two years, then X partner gets Y amount of assets" then I don't know what more you want financially.
 
It's also a good brainstorming tool. Give it a concept, or something like a riddle, and it'll extrapolate from there. It's easily led, but it does ask questions you wouldn't otherwise think of.
The AIs are mostly pretty retarded, but extremely knowledgeable. On any particular topic they'll know infinitely more than the average person does (zero), but they're maybe even worse than the average person at reasoning. The end result is that if you ask a question that it can apply existing knowledge to you can get a reasonable answer. However, the more extrapolation you ask for the worse the answers get.
 
The AIs are mostly pretty retarded, but extremely knowledgeable. On any particular topic they'll know infinitely more than the average person does (zero), but they're maybe even worse than the average person at reasoning. The end result is that if you ask a question that it can apply existing knowledge to you can get a reasonable answer. However, the more extrapolation you ask for the worse the answers get.
That’s why it’s best to be specific with what you ask. Use it as a better search engine than google. If you want it to draw comparisons between things, make sure you ask for the comparisons you want.

The user has to supply executive function
 
The AIs are mostly pretty retarded, but extremely knowledgeable. On any particular topic they'll know infinitely more than the average person does (zero), but they're maybe even worse than the average person at reasoning. The end result is that if you ask a question that it can apply existing knowledge to you can get a reasonable answer. However, the more extrapolation you ask for the worse the answers get.
It also loses memory over time, and if there are too many details, it'll confuse itself. That's why its answers get worse. Sometimes you have to be very specific with questions, others you keep chats rather short.
 
I wasn't saying factories are bad, nor did I. You're arguing with me for no reason, dude.
You’re standing in as my punching bag because Dorothy didn’t come back after saying factory jobs should all be full-ass sweatshops.

They can’t be. I’d like to see anyone spend eight hours a day bent at a 90 degree angle. Sometimes you need time between tasks because not having time between tasks would actually cause injury.
 
The AIs are mostly pretty retarded, but extremely knowledgeable. On any particular topic they'll know infinitely more than the average person does (zero), but they're maybe even worse than the average person at reasoning. The end result is that if you ask a question that it can apply existing knowledge to you can get a reasonable answer. However, the more extrapolation you ask for the worse the answers get.
You're already seeing that the LLMs (at least with the current method) are about to reach the apex in most cases. What's happening is also what happened to SEOs, except it will happen in a much shorter time. People are figuring out how to manipulate the LLM crawlers in order to get their data put as higher priority or expertise, even though the data in those cases is generally wrong. There's also the issue of the LLM creators lobotomizing it because of ideological reasons.

It's likely to get to the point where general purpose LLMs are more or less useless, due to all of the shit data that they've collected, and the only ones worth a shit are small, single-purpose ones that are used for specific tools. But even then, I think we're already seeing bottlenecks in many cases.
 
I agree, but the one thing we should add is at least a class where you learn "how to actually fucking cook for yourself and not eat chicken nuggets all day" and "how to do your taxes". maybe "how to fix your car" too

Put the classes back in? When I was at school, there were "home economics" (cooking and sowing), "personal finance" (checkbooks and taxes), and things like woodworking. I think mechanics was a vo-tech thing.
My school had these classes too. Foods, Consumer/Career Math, Auto Shop, and Wood Shop.

None of these classes were recommended for college prep students. Foods and Consumer/Career Math should have been mandatory for everyone.
 
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