I hope your Tubeyou reset is great!

Tim Pool's admiration for Dan Bongino is an indictment. I never followed Bongino prior to his public service (and had never heard of Patel) because his loud aggressive manner, like Pool's, struck me as insincere posturing.

Nick Reiner's defense is pretty solid, from our observations of his manner. Psych meds are notorious for afflicting people with extraordinary thoughts and emotions. I have myself experienced suicidal ideation from one that I was alert enough to stop taking immediately, but suffered over a weekend from the effects after starting it on a Friday. Not until Sunday afternoon was I relieved of the compelling urge, and it was not manageable with reason. As a result I can well believe such a med could drive Nick to commit murder that he was not able to prevent.

The comment regarding circular cash flows in the AI industry is spot on. However, he claims Oracle's stock plummeted 47%, but with the same breath says 'the equity markets are pricing AI as an inevitable triumph'. His point about the credit markets is right on the money, but it seems investors are catching on, at least regarding Oracle. I will always remember Larry Ellison proclaiming we'll all be bugs under an AI microscope, so we'll be very careful to obey our overlords. Overlords like him. That's the world, and the overlords, I most don't want my sons to inherit, and Ellison best exemplifies it. I will be somewhat mollified when that whole scheme collapses after one of them takes the pile of cash they're supposed to feed back into the loop and it all comes crashing down.

You make good points regarding education. I will add this.

I don't think the failure of the methods to engage students is accidental. Kids are being driven to despise learning, to avoid the curriculum like the plague. Not only is it not interestingly presented, the task is incapable of being an interesting challenge. Three weeks to prepare a rough draft of one page? Kids are quite capable of rising to challenges, and of being riveted by meeting demanding challenges. That teacher isn't trying to challenge them. She's trying to make the assignment so easy that no one that actually makes the effort to complete it can fail.

Is that how they make video games? No, that's not how they make video games. They make boss fights hard because overcoming difficulty deeply engages people, that become driven to surmount them. Even worse, the glacially slow pace of the assignment, which realistically could take a half hour, also causes lengthy delays of any interaction and correction of errors, which is what teaching actually is. No 'Aha!' moments for her students. Just a painful memory of the most boring, pointless, grindingly slow task that no one nor nothing could find interesting. She's not a teacher. She's a torturer, inflicting mental anguish on her captives, that they will forever associate with learning, writing, and education.

Thanks!

Have a very merry Christmas, and a happy New Year!