"You can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink." Inexpensive tertiary education means that more people go through the motions of being educated, à la high school, for an additional four years because "that's what they're supposed to do" and then emerge none the better for it.

A system of heavily subsidized post-secondary vocational schools, like what Germany has, seems like a better path.

The problem is that lazy people use the supposed Einstein quote as a convenient excuse to not know and internalize knowledge about their own profession. You can bet that Einstein memorized the relevant mathematics for his work thoroughly and completely.

Oh didn't you know - the legend has it, he was also bad at maths in elementary school, so that kid of your friends, failing the math this year, may be a genius too :)

Isn't that technically sacrilege or some other doctrinal offense? That might not mean much to us but it should mean quite a lot to the religious faithful.

Should, but won't.

If all of the infidelity, rape, pedophilia, warmongering and brazen corruption and graft didn't faze them I doubt a little light blasphemy will.

A lot of these people already believe Trump was sent by God like an avenging angel to wage spiritual warfare against the Satanic left anyway. It's like they made up a fourth spot in the Trinity just for him.

So I don't see what the problem is. This is perfectly on brand for what American Christianity is turning into.

They were ok with him bragging about grabbing women by the pussy but a picture of him as jesus is too far

Also discussed earlier at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47731322

> "I also just can't get past the argument that people said the same thing when we switched from everyone using ASM to C/Fortran etc."

There was no "switch"; the transition took literally decades. Assembler and high level languages co-existed in the mainstream all the way until the 1990s because it was well understood that there was a trade off getting the best performance using assembler (e.g. DOOM's renderer in 1993) and ease of development and portability (something that really mattered when there were a dozen different CPU architectures around) using high level languages.

There is no need to get past the argument because it doesn't exist. Nobody said that.

No one's saying 100% of code will be LLM generated starting in June this year either though (at least if you're not named Dario or Sam).

IBM suffered no consequences for any of that so there were no lessons to learn. IBM dominated the computer industry from the 1960s-1980s ("Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM") and was a more brutal monopolist than any of the FANGAM corporations.

I will give Strange New Worlds credit for being closer to the spirit of Star Trek than anything in recent memory but the last genuine Star Trek was Voyager ending in 2001, maybe extending to Enterprise if one is feeling generous. Everything after that was soulless monetization of a franchise by people who didn't understand it.

"He's dead, Jim" and the remains are completely desiccated.

There was a lot of FUD in the mainframe era about computers being called "electronic brains" and fears of them taking people's jobs because the ignorant public mistook their lighting fast arithmetic skills for intelligence. Many did lose their jobs as digital record keeping, computerized accounting/ERP, robotics on assembly lines, became cost effective, but at no time did the "electronic brain" become intelligent.

There's a lot of FUD today about LLM's being sapient because the ignorant public mistakes their complex token prediction skills for intelligence. But it's just embarrassing to see people making that mistake on a forum ostensibly filled with hackers.

Is it me making the mistake, or is it you making that very mistake in the other direction?

Back in the "mainframe era", we had entire lists of tasks that even the most untrained humans would find trivial, but computers were impossibly bad at. Like following informal instructions, or telling a picture of a dog from that of a cat.

We're in the "AI era" now, and what remains of those lists? What are the areas of human advantage, the standing bastions of human specialness? Because with modern AI, the list has grown quite thin. Growing thinner as we speak.

The success rate of computers doing those tasks has gone from 0% to 70%-90%, but reaching 100% might take a very long time.

How many people are needed to make up the difference to 100% though?

They don't need to be sapient to be dangerous though

The tool used in construction for releasing trapped air bubbles out of poured concrete is called a concrete vibrator (SFW if anyone cares to Google for it). A vibrating ... ahem, personal toy is actually rather a clever substitute for a small scale project like this.

Substitute in "Japanese" and you'd think we're back in the 1980s. Everything old is new again.