How do we ensure schools employ only teachers we trust? Whats the criteria and initial/review process?

Also, teachers are human. They change views and opinions like the rest of us. What guarantees they don't break that trust?

I’m active in local government - that’s how you make sure the school board is strong and the superintendent is the best candidate. But also voting is effective.

But there are no guarantees - except that those who wish to ban access to books are never to be trusted.

Interest rates are relatively high compared to what they were several years ago. When interest rates are low everyone and their dog gets hired because its cheap to do that. When interest rates are high companies need to be more selective and growth/risk taking decreases.

If we can somehow get inflation under control it will trigger lower interest rates and hiring will increase again. But the current, and possibly only, strategy is to stagnate wage growth and increase the number of people out of work so that the economy has less money circulating in order to reduce inflation.

I've lived through a few of these. Its definitely cyclical.

I've lived through a few of these now too, maybe not as many as you, I don't know, but...

I do think this time is a little bit different. I don't think a lot of these jobs are coming back. Maybe ever.

I'm not saying I'm some crazy woodland luddite maniac, I mean, I'll be tailscaling into the business VPS from the cabin... but... yeah, I think this time is a bit different. I think stuff like this has happened before with like "John Henry was a Steel Driving Man" sort of vibes? But a lot of people are going to try to out-machine the machines right now, and I think that's a losing strategy?

We'll see in 10 years, and I'm in a bit of a privileged position that I'm able to do this, so I don't envy the folks who are struggling right now? But, more concretely, I do think this is different. Interest rates are absolutely part of it, but there's so much deviation from the historical norms right now that I think normalcy bias is a loosing move.

Personally, I'm adapting - also, I'm playing with robots, but that's mostly because it's fun.

> Interest rates are relatively high compared to what they were several years ago.

And compared to last 50 years, Interest rates are still WAY lower, and unemployment is still WAY higher.

Make no mistake: Sure, the "curve" of unemployment trends downwards as interest rates drop [1]. But the "base" of unemployment is constantly increasing with each cycle [2]. There is no reality of unemployment rate going back to what it was before.

It's easy to be unaware of this pattern if one is constantly re-employed and never part of the 27-week unemployed graph, or if the point of reference is just the post-2000 or post-2008 crisis.

But 20% baseline of people who are unemployed more than 27 weeks. Let that sink in. It's pretty insane. And that baseline is only increasing.

What the OP commenter says has truth in data to it: Unemployment increase is not a linear scale of a working society. It's driven by tipping points where major changes happen (e.g. the current political changes in US).

Sources:

1. Unemployment rate last 50 years FRED graph: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS13025703

2. Interest rate last 50 years FRED graph: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DFF

Nice idea. How do you guarantee lifetime service? How long is lifetime? What if your company goes out of business?

I have it setup to be run autonomously as much as possible, the company will never go out of business (nothing is 100% but I will make sure to fight to the very end) cause I plan to just bulk buy servers once I have enough users. Lifetime currently should be up to 100 years, because it is low maintenance, I don't think server cost will affect stuff, but in future I plan to charge by 10 year period, but for now it should be 100 years.

If manufacturers are banned from destroying unsold clothing won't they respond by producing less to avoid excess inventory?

And if supply decreases while demand stays the same wouldn't that push prices up for everyone?

This is still a good outcome. Less waste and trash being thrown out is good.

if you have so much supply that it makes sense to destroy some of it, why would reducing that supply to meet demand drive up prices?

99.9% of small businesses do little to no advertising. I can’t recall seeing an ad for a single one of the small businesses I am a customer of. 99.9% of ads I get are for megacorporations and national brands.

I know people who do moderation for the advertising side of social platforms and they say that more than half of the advertising submissions are done by small businesses. They said that the estimate is around 90% of small businesses use internet advertising in some capacity. There's a bidding mechanism, though, so more big business ads may be shown; especially if you live in a populated region. But that's just a numbers game.

If these companies fail because their quality isn't good enough to support paid subscribers isn't that effectively the same thing as people choosing to not use their platform?

Those of us who dislike these practices already have a choice. We can simply not use the service. So why remove that choice from others who don't mind ads and are willing to use the free version?

Also, forcing a paid only model raises the barrier to entry. Most of the world lives on less than $10 a day, so a subscription would effectively limit access to relatively wealthy people by global standards.

Philosophers have been struggling with the questions of sentience, intelligence, souls, and what it means to be “a person” for generations. The current generation of AIs just made us realize how unprepared we are to answer the questions.

Religions have already adopted LLMs / multimodal models: https://www.reuters.com/technology/ai-and-us/pulpits-chatbot...

I'm alarmed by the prospect of AIs (which tends to mean a corporation wearing a sock puppet) having more rights than humans, who get put in ICE camps.

How do they get the cash? I'm assuming from an ATM with a Visa or Mastercard.

Any solution they come up with will benefit some company that implements the solution. Most likely there already exists a company (it could be Visa or Mastercard) that has the solution ready and they're lobbying for this to happen.

Assuming a big enough audience, that 20% can still be significant enough to build a business around.