1+ hour, 56+ min ago  (279+ words) Strict regulations'could be coming as early as this summer as new social media legislation rapidly makes it way through key votes. The controversial plan would seek to ban children under 16 in'California'from using social media platforms like'Tik Tok,'Instagram, and more....

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (605+ words) Yesterday we talked about failure as a teacher." In that post we linked to a study on how grade inflation is actually harming the life-time earning of students." This picture gets darker, however." San Francisco has, for the last twelve…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (604+ words) I am more or less retired." My investments are therefore meant to take care of me, not grow for my future." But it took a lot of years to get here and during those years I was truly investing in…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (858+ words) joined Huhon Tuesday: HH: So pleased to welcome back to the program David Sacks. David is the chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. He's the AI and crypto czar. He's actually a double czar, which…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago  (252+ words) There are AI-driven chatbots out there pretending to be Jesus." The audacity necessary to set such a thing up is mind-boggling." Can you imagine thinking to yourself, "I'm going to set up a computer system that sort-of-kind-of sounds human and…...

8+ mon, 2+ week ago  (710+ words) Have you ever noticed that there is "a study" to prove every point?" Since covid we have learned, rather pointedly, that expertise is not all that it is cracked up to be." And there is a conundrum." It often takes…...

8+ mon, 2+ week ago  (107+ words) I will start by excerpting Butler again: Certainly confirmation bias is at play here." This, from the article just linked is fascinating: And so, we conclude that this age of abundant, even overwhelming, information is in fact increasing misunderstanding, not…...

11+ mon, 2+ week ago  (751+ words) People's thoughts on AI are all over the map these days." People fear Skynet (the villain of the Terminator movies) or H. A. L." (the AI computer that goes a little insane on a trip to Jupiter and kills a spaceship crew in…...