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But that's been conflated with "Actually a $2T Anthropic IPO makes perfect sense because they're going to replace white collar work."

The internet is full of places to pick a dumb fight and declare your moral superiority, this doesn’t need to be one of those places.

It isn't even partially human written, it's just an LLM's output.

I'm sorry, but the idea that having a place to sleep is enough to save a life is sorely mistaken. A third of chronically homeless people have at least a serious mental health issue and those don't go away. Likewise substance abuse is a hard thing to kick EVEN WITH A HOME. It's doubly so these days when drugs are routinely cut with fentanyl, designer drugs, and worse. A good friend of mine died three years ago very much homed, but almost totally unable to find meaningful, quality, and lasting treatment. In the end after a DECADE clean someone abused her, tricked her, and she was gone three months later.

PUTTING PEOPLE UNDER A ROOF IS NOT ENOUGH.

https://americanaddictioncenters.org/rehab-guide/addiction-s...

https://www.samhsa.gov/communities/homelessness-programs-res...

https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R44302#_Toc437336722

It’s not exactly a cryptic relationship, and it implies the need for more than just housing, people need serious inpatient care or structures outpatient programs and those are hard to fund. It’s doubly challenging because of how the US mental health system changed in the 1980’s… very much for the worse.

At least you didn’t assume I was arguing against housing.

Plus at this point if you really want to ask what Reddit thinks ask an LLM, it'll tell you in painful detail without exposing you to that place. Just remember to check claims and sources (a good practice for human claims as well as LLM ones).

Well yes the internet was here to stay, but if you used that line of thinking to invest heavily in the DotCom sector at that time you were in for a rude awakening.

There’s a major difference between rejecting a technology and rejecting how it’s being packaged and sold.

Note that this is an opinion piece by someone who sells a biosecurity product. A respected person in a respected publication, but still.

“Where do we put the screen to replace the chalkboard, and how much AI do we stick in everything?” Is deep counterproductive.

On the other hand there are signs of the brand wearing thin in places, Mandalorian vs. Grogu was a critical and commercial flop (assuming the usual 2x budget for marketing, if it was more for marketing then it might have been significantly worse than just breaking even).

The trend is really clear though, and it's not going in the right direction for Disney. Obviously they have the resources to reverse that, but the question is if they have the vision and the will.

Very little was really lost IMO if you look at those movies with an eye free of nostalgia, but I'm sure many MANY people would disagree with that.

Screens everywhere were arguably less about better education and more about selling billions in kit to a captive audience. AI everywhere in schools follows a similar pattern with similar motives.

The lack of a scientific approach to education is driven by these factors, but also the reality that parents aren't open to the concept of double-blind studies (or any other sort of randomized study) involving their precious offspring. The result of course is that they still take those chances, but now uninformed by the scientific method.

You misread what I said.

It's a really interesting conversation to have.

tl;dr There is no reality in which it's easier or more reliable to "back up the species elsewhere" than it is to act in our interests here. That doesn't imply shutting ourselves off from space, but it means treating it more like the deep ocean where rovers and drones are simply a better fit for such hostile environments. I'm hopeful that will change someday, but anyone who's thinking in terms of decades doesn't understand the scope and depth of the problem.

My recommendation is to read some of the books and articles suggested in this thread before imposing your wishes on reality.

By the same token "we don't want to be defeated" isn't a good reason to create a planetary exploration timeline driven by false urgency. Mars isn't going anywhere.