I'm more eloquent about it when I can pause to think about it.

The reality is I often feel very demoralized because of the students' low effort and lack of care. Students that are actually enthusiastic about learning are in the definite minority

I've had many conversations about bitcoin with students. Unfortunately, most of them seem to be pretty into shitcoins and have a gambling type attitude towards it (interested in trading and making money). Zero students I met were into bitcoin because if the hard money principles.

Meanwhile in Europe

These memes are coming out at blazing speed

Interesting perspective, you might be right

I think it's much more likely that AI will enslave us than extinct us (not that I think either are particulary likely)

I would invite young men and women to rediscover faith. It puts the boundaries on dating and relationships that young people probably realize are necessary, but cannot really justify or articulate from a purely secular world view. Empirically, I observe that the dating relationships among young people in my church seem quite healthy and abundant.

I use AI a lot to accelerate coding. Writing code blocks that I know how to do, but might take me 5-10 minutes of thinking, can now be completed in a few seconds with a simple tab.

I also use it for research. It's a good springboard for helping you find relevant sources and then digging deeper from there. I always make sure to double check any claims that the AI makes and any sources it cites.

I've occasionally used it for shopping advice, like "find me a product that can do this".

I don't use it for writing, at all.

Hmm, this website has a very strange scrolling behavior that I did not appreciate.

But anyway, on ossification, they definitely hit the nail on the head that the debate really hinges on what you see Bitcoin as: a store of value, a medium of exchange, or a technology platform.

I personally think Bitcoin should stick to being money. Developing a P2P decentralized storage or operating system should, IMO, be left to other technologies.

What does it mean for a life to be wild and woolly?

Definitely B).

One can retain dignity even while having great injustices done to them.

One cannot retain dignity when bowing to the injustice.

This part of the faq tells you some of the rules for determining whether you send sats or cc's

What's wrong with action packed writing?

Well, a couple of reasons.

For every teaching low, there is also a teaching high. I got to orange pill my class once (#899199), and will continue to do so going forward. I've helped a number of students achieve their goal of going to grad school, or get jobs in nice firms. Overall, our school is very good at moving students up the socioeconomic ladder since most come from underserved and minority backgrounds.

I have to remind myself not to take the lack of engagement personally. A lot of these students work part time or even full time jobs, or have family to take care of. (Like I said, many of the students come from underprivileged backgrounds). It's hard for them to muster the energy to take class seriously. It makes teaching hard, and it probably means they're not learning a lot.... but I guess getting that degree is still better for them than not getting it, even if they don't learn much. So I guess I'm just a step on that ladder... and can I blame them for using me that way? I get paid for it after all.

And lastly, I can't deny that it's just a fairly cushy job. It doesn't pay great, but I get a lot of free time that lets me pursue other interests.

I don't know the answer to the question, but I think it's fairly plausible.

I also think the dominance of Western institutions in health and bioscience isn't necessarily a good thing, as I've been seeing more and more sociological crap in health journals. (And I say this as a social scientist...)

One thing to point out is that the best grad students doing most of the grunt work in labs has often been the Chinese... recent decoupling of US from China has probably impacted US research output in ways orthogonal to the Trump administration's funding shenanigans

That being said, gaming the system is exactly the kind of thing Chinese universities would be apt to do

I'd drink it.

Yo, that's Chris Hedges. He's pretty based, though I don't agree with him on a lot of things.

PewDiePie is a tech tuber now?

I don't think LA has any Steak n Shakes, afaik

That's pretty fascinating.

I always thought Star Trek's Universal Translator was the least believeable tech, because how can you translate a language from which you have no samples? But now it seems more believable