The Bolt EV is $25600 lol, and has a Li Ion battery which lasts 15 years.

Get with the times old man.

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One way or another, there won't be any schools in the US in 20 years. Either AI will teach from home, etc, or there won't be any more students left after all the school shootings.

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I would be in the office almost every day if it wasn't for the commute. My office downsized during COVID, doubling my commute time... And it's all I can do to go in 2 times a week now. Seriously considering a move to a competitor that is walking distance from my house.

Americans do not need another subscription and that is what leasing is.

What they need is a 25k EV that is capable of being paid off, has batteries that last longer than 3-4 years, and is capable of being maintained at the local garage.

Lithium-ion is not going to get us there. Perhaps iron-air will.

My wife is currently going through almost this exact same scenario in the UK. Copy/pasted from a post I made a few weeks ago:

It started with shallow platitudes about "getting back to normal" and it being "easier to vibe with each other". Apparently the CEO gave a rare appearance one day and he didn't like how empty the office was. Two or three days a week in office were then required.

Then company-wide weekly updates stopped being delivered online and are now in-person only, with no justification, despite employees from smaller branches being too far away to attend them. Now she is required to attend a fouth day each week to account for this deliberate contrivance.

When she raised concerns about this trajectory, and asked the justification for it, she was pressured by upper-middle management to essentially not question it and to limit such "outbursts" in future. It was strongly implied that her career progression would be impacted if she didn't, though she suspects it has been already.

She's privately been approached by colleagues and told that they share her concerns, but they feel unable to voice them. They seem to want her to continue fighting it but she's pretty much decided to not rock the boat any further while she looks for another job to move on to.

Interestingly, it seems that some of her more extroverted colleagues who do prefer to work in the office, and do so five days a week, seem to have been almost personally offended by my wife's questioning of the policy, and her interactions with them have been noticeably frosty since. I can see that divide among workers factoring into the success of the current attempts to rollback WFH rights.

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I've heard some theories about how AI itself would regulate this, but we're talking about a very advanced AI here that has a justifiable reason for promoting human-to-human interaction and can regularly monitor the metabolic output per comment, reply, etc.

However, that's just a theory.

Currently is the operative word in that sentence. I prefer to get out ahead of problems you can see coming.

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When do you realistically think this will happen. Cybertruck, anyone ?

The education system, schooling, all that becomes more of a social function in that case. Humans evolved to be around other humans; we are social apes, and replacing that with technology— even very humanlike technology— is insufficient for a child's behavioral and psychological wellbeing. Personal education (AI tutors) might replace "true" school, but the way we've implemented schooling in our society fits our nature well.

This is why I don't see school going away. The true point of school on a fundamental level is to put kids into community associations for general education; it's only our Prussian-style education system that focuses heavily on labor capabilities and aptitude training, and thus that aspect of schooling will likely change. What we call schools will almost certainly evolve into community functions.

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Are you seriously suprised that companies with lobbying power to influence the laws of a country are in close relations with governors who run the country?!

That's actually the case in Ireland now. As a lot of members of parliament are landlords and have shares in office buildings, there is strong lobby to get workers into the offices ASAP. Funniest thing - not all companies. Some companies found WFH as business solution to grow, they are keeping their own office buildings for people that actually want to come to work (Irish people are very social), but they are openly admit that WFH is the answer for company growth.

What makes me really unhappy is that we have a housing problem. We have people with 60k+ salaries living on the streets. One of the office buildings was converted to accommodate Ukrainian refugees. Why others cannot be converted like that, beats me...

I think it depends: What do you consider knowledge? Critical thinking skills for instance are different from facts—those take practice, not information. Arguably all knowledge is more than just information—the process of learning figures into it.

Even with a language: you could download grammar rules maybe, but everybody develops a feel for language that’s intimate, unique, and distinct, and that sense develops because you learn it slowly over time. Could you download the fact that many people find the word “moist” uncomfortable, but only in English? I memorized the case system in German and Russian long before I could use them in conversation correctly and instinctively. Knowing the facts was only part of learning the language.

Scientific insight is often described as coming in a flash after years of familiarization with a subject. That’s more than just the information—that’s years of turning a subject around and around in your head until you feel things about it instinctively, connected with other things in your life. There’s reason to believe dreams forge unique connections between subjects and experiences in your brain, almost like metaphors, and those would be entirely unique to how you learned a subject as opposed to what you learned. That kind of complex learning and interconnecting of subjects as you go is very different from a “download,” but that’s what we mean when we say “knowledge.”

I work for a large corporation. Great place to work. Judged so by polls. Also checks out to me anecdotally.

My employer has asked for 3 days in the office. Most employees fully support this concept. Some who have personal reasons (child care, health) would prefer to be full time WFH. Fine, I can see that. But consider this: if you demonstrate to your employer that your job can be done fully remotely, how long before they then also decide, “Well if they can do it from anywhere successfully, then that job can also be done by someone in a low COL location. Possibly even a different country.

I don’t hear managers advocating for complete WFH. Maybe in some fields like IT or accounting. But most of us feel supportive of the notion that critical collaboration is lost with full WFH. When we returned to the office after Covid, problems that had lingered were solved by hallway discussions or water cooler talk. Do we need to be in an office 5 days a week to get that? No.

Personally I’d almost advocate for a 4 day work week over WFH but I’m fine with the current 3 days in the office.

The “I do my own research!” people will just come to the same bad conclusions faster, instantly sending you hundreds of links to all the papers they misunderstood.

Its obviously the application and implication (faster WT production) rather than the technology.

Education, and the concept of knowledge and learning, are about to be fundamentally transformed by AI.

Up til now, our educational system beyond primary school has been dedicated to specialization. However, this specialization has been largely driven by constraint - we need the time in order to absorb the material - and therefore, we naturally specialize, burrowing deep into a single subject to the exclusion of everything else.

This is one of the things that has led to the state of today's science establishment, for example - an establishment which rewards exactly this kind of specialization. Cross-disciplinary research is rare, and so are the kinds of scientists we once had - scientists driven by a broad curiosity about the world - are rare. They get driven out quickly and branded as troublemakers.

This is all about to change, completely. AI democratizes knowledge in a way nothing ever has, by giving anyone the ability to recall any piece of information about any process, structure or method in existence.

This means that the advantage no longer lies in ones ability to specialize due to constraints placed by biological capability.

Suddenly, what becomes prized is the individual's ability to become anyone quickly, assisted by AI.

The individual's ability to act as the real-time actioner of their own intent using the situational intelligence of AI requires them to enter into a mode of operation where they simply respond in real-time to the information presented by the AI, with just the right amount of variation to account for the moment.

In other words - it will be your ability to be a convincing improv actor which will matter most relative your capacity to wield this new technology. Specialization will become a relic of the past, when we couldn't simply intend our desires and watch as an invisible force guided us through the actions necessary to actualize them.

The AI age will be the time of the creative, the adept of mind, and the communicator. Those who are fluid and able to respond in tune with the AI will be at the top on this hierarchy, and our schools will one day come to teach skills like empathy for this exact reason.

The crazy thing is that this is just the start of it. AI literally changes everything.

Completely my experience, also in engineering

Dude, in 2020-2021 you had free money pumping into the system. Everyone with a pulse made money. Doesn't mean you were more productive, once the stimulus stopped and interest rate went up, many companies found their pants were down.

It's when the times are lean that WFH needs to prove itself, not when there was money raining down from the sky.

Then make them work by getting another job. Complaining is cheap.

Why woukd an employer do anything at all to improve your life? That is not how the capitalist system works.

If you don't cause damafe to your boss what reason does he have to make your life better?

Probably, but it doesn't solve the whole issue and its usefulness would vary greatly between disorders (bipolar would probably see one of the highest benefits since it seems to have a strong genetic factor). The environment people are raised in/live in make a big difference and, especially in the case of bipolar and schizophrenic patients, people's access to high concentrations of THC. People don't want to talk about it, but I've worked in a high acuity psychiatric hospital for 3.5 years and the vast majority or schizophrenic/affective patients I've seen have either had their psychiatric problems triggered or worsened by their use of modern strains of marijuana with higher and high levels of THC. Many schizophrenic patients never showed any signs of psychosis until they got a little too high. And bipolar patients can find themselves more easily destabilized by weed, reducing the efficacy of their medications or creating a deeper psychological dependence on weed. This is especially true for people with bipolar 1 as their mania can push them to make rash, unpredictable decisions that have lasting consequences, like going off of their meds or pushing their mania to a state of a psychosis.

But im not just here to blame weed (a big part of that problem is simply the lack of proper regulations). Stress and trauma based disorders like PTSD or BPD drastically increase the odds of developing psychotic disorders as well.

And with ADHD, I haven't been able to find a study on this, but from my research I hypothesize that early child development plays a huge role the development of the disorder as neglect forces an infant brain to overdevelop its emotional centers, making for a notable difference is the physical structures of their brain. The difference can be so drastic that, based on images of infant MRI's, this over development seemingly gives less room for the prefrontal cortex and an underdeveloped prefrontal cortex is the ultimate cause of ADHD. Also, statistics suggests that WAAAAAAY more people have ADHD than what is diagnosed, which I feel strengths my hypothesis since childhood neglect is such a common problem.