It literally says "mean" directly next to "kind" for the South. I think whoever put the map together needs to take another look at their inputs.

I paid off my loans and I'm hoping this forgiveness plan happens. I won't feel like a fool at all. I was fortunate, others aren't. The only ones who would feel like fools are small minded, selfish people who can't see beyond their own resentment.

This is completely a-historical. Has nobody ever heard of AI winters? The history of AI is defined by long stretches of zero progress. There was never this constant march of ever-accelerating progress. Anyone who thinks we're about to see exponential (or exponentially exponential, or whatever this guy is talking about) growth in capabilities forever doesn't know history.

So many people look at the progress what we call AI has made in the last few years and think if progress continues at this rate, agi is right around the corner. They don't understand the fundamental limitations of our current approaches and why they won't scale past a certain point, which is likely somewhere well short of true agi. This is a really good explanation of the limitations.

From the perspective of an average person it feels like a solution in search of a problem. Like outside of libertarians and people who are seriously into the tech, you never see regular people saying "you know, I could use less centralization in my life." Maybe crypto caught their attention for a while, but managing your own wallet is somewhat hard to understand, so they just went to re-centralized platforms like FTX.

And without widespread buy in from the public, companies have no reason to get into it. As others have said, it's hard to monetize a truly decentralized system. So the question is, who is actually asking for more decentralization? At the moment, I think the answer is almost no one.

A few years ago they said their future was in Watson and now that's...not even a thing I think? If I had to bet I'd say their future is in mainframes.

I agree with your premise, and would add that space is likely to be just one of the next big things, which may also include biotech, energy tech and relatedly climate tech. It will be interesting to see what the future brings when smart people do more with their careers than trying to get people to click on ads.

Because the ones being singled out are the ones who can afford it.

Taxation is not theft, obviously.

Man I was kinda on the fence about this one but this guy makes me want to vote yes so hard.

Health insurers tried to scare us with this same message when obamacare was being debate. It didn't raise costs like they said. I don't see why it would for dental insurance.

The reason they wouldn't jack up costs is because then nobody would get dental care. And it doesn't matter how high your prices are, if nobody is buying your product you're not making money.