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Why deal with real people when we can plug ourselves into the matrix? Until we get so bored that we ask the matrix to create fake people for us to interact with.

Tangential but, why shouldn't universities be afraid? The value of higher education for many subjects is existentially threatened by AI. In 10-20 years, it's not unrealistic that the only justifiable subset of subjects will be those whose practitioners cannot be replaced by AI.

> do you think Google's legal team, which is probably equally qualified and vastly more well paid (and with a lot more to lose if they're wrong), would advise employees to do this if they hadn't considered such trivialities?

Depends on what their risk-reward appetite is. Competent people will make surprising decisions under pressure.

To those arguing about the semantics of deletion vs. never having saved it in the first place, do you believe the DOJ would make this claim without having considered such trivialities?

If you're going to compare them to lesser ranked schools, sure. But the feeling is that, if a rising tide lifts all boat, the tide has been falling in this case, and top-ranked schools have a lot more to lose.

If they're losing esteem, it's because of the purity of education is fading. First, tuitions are becoming outrageous. The mixture of profit motive and higher education has an unpleasant odor.

Then, there are the numerous academic integrity scandals among now-infamous scholars at Ivies or similar, such as Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Dan Ariely, etc., and a general feeling that the overwhelming pressure for novel discoveries / getting published in a big journal is undermining scientific progress.

Also, there is a perception that students are increasingly selected for reasons other than academic merit, e.g. family name / an ancestor who was an alumnus, big donations, athletic vs. scholarly ability, and so on. Rich parents buying their kids' admissions through sports "recruitment" was particularly egregious.

Asian students with perfect SAT's and AP/IB-loaded 4.0+ GPA's being rejected for "non-racist" "reasons," as revealed by "Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard" and other top-tier American universities was a cherry on top.

This seems too good to be true?

It should be openly banned on the tit-for-tat principles. The paranoid speculation towards TikTok by some media is embarrassing. Instagram is in the same class of brain-melters. Let's stop the nonsense and call this what it is: protectionism.

That's not what the narrative is (or is only a small part of it), and IMHO, that is at least as important as what is written in the bill.

Good programming is sometimes mostly thinking, because "no plan survives first contact with the enemy." Pragmatic programming is a judicious combination of planning and putting code to IDE, with the balance adapting to the use case.

This sets the precedent to do the exact same thing to domestic companies if the government feels that the public is being "manipulated," or data being used, in a way it doesn't like.

If the rationale was solely tit for tat, "China does this to our tech companies, so we're simply doing the same," that would actually be significantly more palatable.

I agree with your sentiment. Every era has had its major challenges, and it's egocentric + myopic to say ours are the most important ever.

Source that it’s a rules engine without any input from ML? Seems doubtful.

FSD ⊆ AI. To implicitly equate the two is ignorance of the kind described in the post to which you responded.

Anyone who knows anything about AI would only use it to drive their car as a last resort. The driving public's ignorance about AI's capabilities is astonishing.

The crashes were a result of a single sensor being a point of failure. The update uses two sensors and they must agree with one another.

It would be more accurate to compare this to a mass crime. 25 feels light for perpetrating one of the biggest and notorious frauds in modern history. Did the judge go to the upper range of the punishment spectrum? There are judges out there who would have made an example out of this case.

Lack of redundancy. Also a major contributing factor in the 737 MAX crashes. Redundancy is a low price to pay for peace of mind.

> I sort of think apple shouldn't try to comply

I know some of us like to think of Apple as some kind of corporate diety, but even Apple has to answer to the US government.

You would only take this route if you lacked the means to pay law school tuition, or maybe if your parents were reputable attorneys who are willing to apprentice you.

I think you're deceiving yourself with your implication that cheaters tend to be "extremely intelligent." Being able to exhibit intelligence in short bursts is not the same capability as being able to exercise it for hours a day, for months on end, in a mental marathon like academia or many other career paths require. The cheaters that you're referring to, are at best, clever, which is inferior to being intelligent.

You may believe that they simply lack the desire to use their intelligence over a longer timespan, but there is effectively no difference between never wanting to do it and not being able to do it.

There may occasionally be cheaters who cheat because they get a kick out of it, and happen to be intelligent, but that isn't the norm.

How pervasive is corruption higher academia? The big names (Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Ariely, etc.) will make headlines, but how many more are there that we never hear about? I happen to know a prolific cheater who became a professor at a well-known university. I'd be surprised if their cheating stopped when they got to university and beyond...

What did Yuzu expect? If they’re going to challenge a company of Nintendo’s stature in this manner, then they should be prepared for legal war.

And what’s Nintendo supposed to do here? Most here would do the same thing if they were in Nintendo’s shoes. They have employees to pay.

Don’t hate the player, hate the game.

Go certainly has a very different philosophy, but I don't think it's necessarily superior. Typescript is not as academic as Scala, but it gives power to developers who are willing to put in the effort to learn. With that power comes greater efficiencies and type safety.

Unless you're a celebrity, in which case you get "special treatment."

Only if the grades are assigned in a standardized manner across all candidates, which they definitely are not.

The Korean test is significantly more difficult, if for no other reason, it takes significantly more time than the SAT to complete. Also, the maximum question difficulty is said to be much harder.

Which is why Korea has historically spent an inordinate proportion of its intellectual capital trying to pass an exam rather than innovating. Modern Korea is much better than that, but there is still room for improvement.

I don't know if your post was a humble brag, but on Elixir + rewriting core code well, if I'm buying a software company and I know that the engineering team took their time to write good, maintainable code, that company is worth a lot more than if it the codebase is spaghetti quicksand.

The stress is distributed over time, so lower peak stress, and for those who are not cut out for this, they will find out much more quickly, which minimizes their time wasted studying. They could invest their times instead into a trade school etc., which will be of greater benefit to society.