All the assignments were way too easy and didn't force students to really learn the concepts in those classes. It's a complete waste of time and money for everyone involved.

I recently looked at my local community College curriculum, and I was appalled. On paper it was a basic three class sequence, Intro, OO, datastruct. In practice, they spent most of the class reteaching intro each time because they just assumed the students didn't actually learn the basics.

I mean, it's a need technology that will enable us to be more efficient than ever before.

And like every other such technology since the 80s, it will improve the quality of life... of the wealthiest. Not much for the median American.

We need massive political change to help them.

I mean... currently you just end up either:

1. Going to the 25k hospital and then having medical debt until you die, or
2. Assuming you can’t afford it and dying.

Letting people know the price before hand does not make things worse.

What are you talking about? Insurance companies absolutely love that you don’t know how much anything costs and that you effectively can't buy anything without going through them. This screwed up, opaque mess is great for them. Anything that makes Healthcare easier to navigate hurts them.

I mean, that's currently how it works. If there was a price tag, you would at least know if you are choosing between your life or your house, instead of just expecting it to be that way.

And more importantly, if there was one you could afford, you would know.

I mean, he's right. Price transparency isn't the only way to fix Healthcare spending, and many other changes will also be needed for a market based solution.

But just knowing the price would help a lot.

There are two ways that a market doesn't become a private monopoly that screws everyone:

1. Strictly regulate the monopoly.
2. Make sure customers have informed choices.

Currently we are doing neither and our system is terrible.

I mean, it actually would save a shot ton of money if I could tell how much routine procedures would cost before going to a random clinic. Even for less routine stuff, as long as it's scheduled like one day in advanced it could help.

The sad thing is that most Americans are extremely reactionary. If they are angry they blame whoever is in charge, essentially regardless of what the underlying problem is.

Of course, propaganda works, so you can spin things a bit, but it has its limits.

People are working longer than they have since the 60s. Reducing the age required for tax breaks seems like a gift for middle aged people with large homes who may or may not be an important voting block in Texas (they are).

I argue the median America doesn't know what a cpu is. At least the median American under 20. I think older people actually understand computers better even if they have trouble with new UIs.

What specifically is this in response to?

This was one of the good ideas that NFTs had even if the rest was kind of garbage.

This technically something you can put into a sales contract, but it would be pain to enforce. Maybe less so if it was the legal default rather a special contract.

It's not a hard problem per say, statistics is a quite developed field, even if many people suck at it and I think the standard techniques are too informal and non rigorous. It's socially a hard problem.

One of the hard problems of science is that actually, usually the first sample really is pretty close to the mean. It's just that we actually have to justify that approximation.

There are just so many people, a large fraction will have low probability happen. We need to know they are wrong.

On the other end, a gloating Monte hall who always reveals the car if it's often revealing a goat means you should definitely stay.

The reason is that conditioned on seeing a goat in this case, that actually increases the probability you chose right as seeing the goat was less likely if you had chosen a goat. If you use Bayes theorem, you can see this works out to 50/50.

The issue with putting too many people on too fast is that you almost always build it wrong the first time. If there's not much on top of you, that's fine. You can rebuild the top.

But if there's a bunch on top, especially if management sucks, then it can stop you from making it right.