Since Oren claims concern over immigration, perhaps he could pass along a request to his "new" right friends. First, when deporting someone, please observe that quaint concept known as due process, it's kinda important. And if we're gonna keep deporting our neighbors instead of criminals, perhaps we can end the made for TV spectacles? No head shaving, no log chains, no frog marches for the cameras before loading fellow humans on a plane bound for foreign prisons. And please, no more Kristi Noem in full cowgirl regalia riding horses through the "set". She should spend her time studying complex topics like habeas corpus and doing penance for murdering her dog... And to think, she was viewed as one of the "normie" cabinet appointees. Perhaps she is, compared to the serial sexual harassing, drunkard, weekend TV talk show host serving as SecDef. Good luck America.
Good stuff. There's lots I could yammer on about. One thing - I read Tyler Cowen's piece on AI and he quoted the study as saying (I'm paraphrasing), "Students who wrote papers using AI couldn't remember what 'they' wrote within a couple months (or some similar time)". My first thought when I read that was, that's a problem. Nothing was learned. Cowen, on the other hand, had no issues with it. He rationalized it away. I forget exactly what he wrote. I think he couldn't be more wrong. This wasn't the first time I'd read something from him (particularly wrt AI) that I came away unimpressed. How he has become one of the 'great thinkers' of our time in the minds of so many people is beyond me.
You make many good points here, especially about the lack of a basis for ed tech in general, and I go out of my way to read your stuff whenever I see it. Still, it would carry more weight with me if you were a little less smug in your commentary and could point to at least some actual legislation being introduced the pursues your preferred policy goals. All I know of so far from our supposedly "new right" government is a bunch of "old right" crap to cut taxes and amp up profits for big business.
Surely this is in jest. It can't be that American Compass is hyping life-changing investment opportunities on Substack. Or I'll console myself that it can't be.
A good selection of things to read. I once attended a talk of university president whose school was in financial trouble. In the Q&A I noted that in the early 80’s I attended the University of Maryland as a commuter and paid $800 per semester as a full-time student. My question was “How did knowledge become so expensive over the last 40 years”. When I was in my primary schooling years we utilized hand me down hard copy books, spiral notebooks and blackboards. Out athletics were played on astrodirt, meaning patches of grass with a good amount of dirt and gravel.
Nothing is wrong with science. It's scientists that are the problem. Nasty fallen creatures like the rest of us.
I think it was you that noted that industrial policy is like foreign policy in that you can't not have one. Thus, both price controls and the lack thereof are industrial policy. The question is what is good industrial policy. Unlike true communism, price controls have been tried thousands of times for thousands of years and the results have not been pretty- black markets or shortages or both. So I am uneasy about price controls on drugs. The problem is that the American consumer is bearing 100% of the R&D costs because we have let the rest of the developed world ride free as surely as has been the case with the military. Their price controls induce Big Pharma to seek all of their profits here. Surely we can think of a way to sanction Europe, Japan and Canada for doing this. Might get tricky since China controls the supply chain.
Since Oren claims concern over immigration, perhaps he could pass along a request to his "new" right friends. First, when deporting someone, please observe that quaint concept known as due process, it's kinda important. And if we're gonna keep deporting our neighbors instead of criminals, perhaps we can end the made for TV spectacles? No head shaving, no log chains, no frog marches for the cameras before loading fellow humans on a plane bound for foreign prisons. And please, no more Kristi Noem in full cowgirl regalia riding horses through the "set". She should spend her time studying complex topics like habeas corpus and doing penance for murdering her dog... And to think, she was viewed as one of the "normie" cabinet appointees. Perhaps she is, compared to the serial sexual harassing, drunkard, weekend TV talk show host serving as SecDef. Good luck America.
please explain some of the initials you use; not every knows that LLM is not a master of law.
Good stuff. There's lots I could yammer on about. One thing - I read Tyler Cowen's piece on AI and he quoted the study as saying (I'm paraphrasing), "Students who wrote papers using AI couldn't remember what 'they' wrote within a couple months (or some similar time)". My first thought when I read that was, that's a problem. Nothing was learned. Cowen, on the other hand, had no issues with it. He rationalized it away. I forget exactly what he wrote. I think he couldn't be more wrong. This wasn't the first time I'd read something from him (particularly wrt AI) that I came away unimpressed. How he has become one of the 'great thinkers' of our time in the minds of so many people is beyond me.
You make many good points here, especially about the lack of a basis for ed tech in general, and I go out of my way to read your stuff whenever I see it. Still, it would carry more weight with me if you were a little less smug in your commentary and could point to at least some actual legislation being introduced the pursues your preferred policy goals. All I know of so far from our supposedly "new right" government is a bunch of "old right" crap to cut taxes and amp up profits for big business.
Surely this is in jest. It can't be that American Compass is hyping life-changing investment opportunities on Substack. Or I'll console myself that it can't be.
A good selection of things to read. I once attended a talk of university president whose school was in financial trouble. In the Q&A I noted that in the early 80’s I attended the University of Maryland as a commuter and paid $800 per semester as a full-time student. My question was “How did knowledge become so expensive over the last 40 years”. When I was in my primary schooling years we utilized hand me down hard copy books, spiral notebooks and blackboards. Out athletics were played on astrodirt, meaning patches of grass with a good amount of dirt and gravel.
Nothing is wrong with science. It's scientists that are the problem. Nasty fallen creatures like the rest of us.
I think it was you that noted that industrial policy is like foreign policy in that you can't not have one. Thus, both price controls and the lack thereof are industrial policy. The question is what is good industrial policy. Unlike true communism, price controls have been tried thousands of times for thousands of years and the results have not been pretty- black markets or shortages or both. So I am uneasy about price controls on drugs. The problem is that the American consumer is bearing 100% of the R&D costs because we have let the rest of the developed world ride free as surely as has been the case with the military. Their price controls induce Big Pharma to seek all of their profits here. Surely we can think of a way to sanction Europe, Japan and Canada for doing this. Might get tricky since China controls the supply chain.