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> I have a friend who is a new TA at a university in California. They’ve had to report several students, every semester, for basically pasting their assignments into ChatGPT.

We've solved this problem before.

You have 2 separate segments:

1. Lessons that forbid AI 2. Lessons that embrace AI

This doesn't seem that difficult to solve. You handle it like how you handle calculators and digital dictionaries in universities.

Moving forward, people who know fundamentals and AI will be more productive. The universities should just teach both.


this is tough because we've spent years building everything in education to be mediated by computers and technology, and now we're realizing that maybe we went a little overboard and over-fit to "lets do everything on computers".

it was easy to force kids to learn multiplication tables in their head when there were in-person tests and pencil-and-paper worksheets. if everything happens through a computer interface... the calculator is right there. how do you convince them that it's important to learn to not use it?

if we want to enforce non-ai lessons, i think we need to make sure we embrace more old-school methods like oral exams and essays being written in blue books.


Number 3.

Imagine if you can advertise that 50% of the matches on your app leads to marriage.


You might found out the hard way that a lot of people say they want that, but very much want to avoid it.

The main allure of these apps to young women is all the attention from far more attractive men (relatively). Take that away - show her men who might be her "equal" in terms of marriageability, men who might be willing to commit to her - and your service will soon be dismissed and abandoned for only showing ugly men.

You need to sell the fantasy, sell the delusion. Sell hope. The reality hits too hard.


Like, lying? You can already do that.

Because it's almost impossible to optimize for love. like how?

What is "love" anyway? I imagine using these dating apps is basically the same as applying for jobs.

That is the companies problem to solve. They are the ones making the product.

As explained in the article, that is not the product.

Probably by finding compatible matches.

They don't need to optimize for "love". They just need to not optimize for dark patterns and extortion. Love happens offline, not on a fucking app.


There's no good way to evaluate the result anyway.

Grants like this at a small scale is generally inconsequential to the country.


You could evaluate how much art gets created

Anyone could have created a godly insane amount of arts if they don't care about quality.

The quantity of arts isn't a good metrics.


Sure, but you can also evaluate if it gets awards, or buyers, buzz, etc.

I agree its pretty subjective and not the essiest thing to evaluate, but i think its certainly possible.


I'd bet what happens is that it just funded a bunch of children of upper middle class families.

Scholarships and this kind of funds happen elsewhere and are based on merits. They end up funding a bunch of upper middle class's children because it turns out those children are well-equipped to perform higher on merits.

If you are too rich, then you wouldn't need this kind of fund.

If you are below upper middle class, then you would have a hard time competing with children from that class.

The upper middle class isn't rich enough to fund the kid but is good enough to accumulate a lot of merits.


You're sort of right. This particular grant is extra curious because it's typically been given to already highly accomplished artists. Sweden is a small pond and although there are a few fun outliers in this crowd, most of them make out the upper echelons of the Swedish cultural societé. Some were born straight into it. Others, no doubt, had parents who could put them there and knew someone who knew someone. One, for example, is Swedish nobility and the son of a diplomat. Another was the son of a Swedish secretary of state.

While I'm sure there are some wholly self-made virtuosos on the list, it does give off an air of apparent nepotism.


>They end up funding a bunch of upper middle class's children because it turns out those children are well-equipped to perform higher on merits.

I'd argue they are well equipped to give the appearance of merit, rather than performing higher on actual merit.


That's not true.

We can easily look at countries like Vietnam and Thailand where the merit is basically exam-based. Extremely difficult to cheat or "give the appearance".

The upper middle class's children perform very well. The top universities are full of these children. They are the top of the country. They are math/computer/science olympiads

If you are too rich, then the children are too spoiled. If you are too poor, then you don't have time and space to study nor access to private tutors.


Back in my country, the bribes are illegal and mostly untraceable.

Money will go into politics. Nobody can stop this, and it should be out in the open and traceable.

Obviously, no bribe at all is the best, but is this happening anywhere?


It's an ex-CEO of Github. He can raise $60m on any idea.

That's just south east asia in general.

It's hilarious that we think of Singapore as competing with China where China has 1000x more people.

Singapore is pretty impressive.


Look at the map, all ocean travel between East Asia and India/Europe basically has to go past Singapore. They've been a trade and financial center with a substantial chinese population for a long time.

> Look at the map, all ocean travel between East Asia and India/Europe basically has to go past Singapore.

Same can be said about Sri Lanka.


Its less funneled although most straight lines will approach the southern tip of India. Singapore is one of 2 possible ways through Indonesia and its the shorter one.

China could only compete with Hong Kong after they crippled Hong Kong hard enough.

Well, 230x.

well, ok, less impressive

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