"Is this what the pinnacle of human is? Lazy and greedy?"

Selfishness, too. But if I follow the logic, and citations are added, how would one enforce a copyright claim if the creator is amorphous and all-knowing?

> how would one enforce a copyright claim if the creator is amorphous and all-knowing?

I love it! There's a great seed here for a short story about God being sued by a peer of his for copying some of her physical constants and not putting a proper copyright notice about it in our universe.

Thanks for the laugh.

Now back to prompting, telling my all-knowing to create new slop, good sir.

Probably cheaper to set up and print a proof from KDP per blog. Would have to do the math on this, mainly the basic formatting is the labor (or automating it with AI now, not too bad). Proofs do not require a review per-say, but likely falls outside the user agreement since you dont own the content.

Access to kdp and time to do this varies.

And if you do a good enough job, contact the blog's author. Maybe they would see the intrinsic value, but mainly question how weird it is to receive such an offer.

"The growth of AI feels . . . like losing a limb"

Indeed. Figuratively, generatively, and of course, generationally.

I grepped for "covid" and "COVID-19" on all presented text. 1 result found.

". . . did you ever attend school from home or somewhere else outside of school because of the COVID-19 outbreak?"

Can someone else confirm?

Not enough investigation there. Of course, the trend was already going down, but the new slope is obvious.

Prediction in next three years will be same or greater - technology, ai, screentime.

Note the results are compiled from the 2022–23 school year, compared to the 2019–20 school year. So yeah, the big thing there is the lockdown for (depending on local policies) the year or two in between.

> technology, ai, screentime

Significant parts of our society and government are actively hostile to education. Blaming the students is convenient, but probably not accurate.

Who is blaming the students? If 13 year olds were smoking and we blamed poor sports performance in that age group on the smoking, we wouldn't be "blaming" them. We don't model 13 year olds as little islands of free will.

Chronic absence is up and truancy is down according to this report. Not really what I’d expect for phone use—both should trend flat or up.

I wonder if there’s a way to validate the hypothesis that post-shutdown, some of the cohort that would have missed a day here and there now see school as optional and miss more days.

Overall, the reported effect is sad and should be addressed. These are people’s lives.

Youth participation in travel club sports is up so they miss more school days due to tournaments. These tend to be the more affluent and motivated students who still achieve good grades and high standardized test scores. I receive warning letters from the school district every year over high absences but it doesn't mean anything and I just throw them in the trash.

Chronic absence numbers are misleading. We all know that they are just placeholder stats for other factors and we should focus on those.

My 3rd grade daughter was unlucky with various illnesses and missed about 12 days this year (so far). I got a letter from her principal attempting to guilt trip me for her "Chronic absence".

I wrote an angry response (in retrospect it was too angry since he had no choice about the letter) where I asked if he would prefer my sending sick children to school.

Her grades (for whatever value grades have in 3rd grade) are fine. I'll take the chance on her reading her "Diary of a wimpy kid" book when sick, or when a sane system would have given a snow day.

> in retrospect it was too angry since he had no choice

Imho you did the right thing. Everyone has a choice.

I did the same (but instead of an email it was an angry speech, face to face), with the exact same question (if they would prefer my sending sick children to school). My child's grades were fine, too. Haven't received any letters after that.

Today, I was presented with Claude's decision to include numerous goto statements in a new implementation. I thought deeply about their manual removal; years of software laws went against what I saw. But then, I realized it wouldn't matter anymore.

Then I committed the code and let the second AI review it. It too had no problem with goto's.

Claude's Law: The code that is written by the agent is the most correct way to write it.

Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto Claude the things that are Claude's.

And so, it is written:

https://dev.to/solidi/claudes-law-1da7

There was an article posted here a few weeks ago titled "Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity."

I've been thinking about it a lot, and now, in turn, the memory of Mr. Hoare.

It is a double blind study. what else do you want for confirmation ?

". . . whose specifications are static and solid." Well, thats the problem with software. There isn't agreement of such specifications. We aren't working with wood, nails nor forming a sill footing on bedrock.

If I could upvote this article twice, I would.

Fortunately for me, you left this comment, so I upvoted the article and your comment. Which kind of scratches the same itch.

Surprised this hasn't been taken down by the admins.