Category Archives: Education

Rapidly Advancing AI, and some problems

Current News, Education, politics, science

Artificial Intelligence, AI, such as the LLMs Grok, Claude, Chat-GPT, etc., are now advancing at an incredible rate.

I’ve seen several people post references to this, Something Big Is Happening, recently, and related AI-disruptions in business like Bro-Bots at the bottom of this Coffee and Covid blog post. Related to this with specific examples in video, Claude Opus 4.6: The Biggest AI Jump I’ve Covered–It’s Not Close. (Here’s What You Need to Know) Given the predicate of my first novel is AI gone wrong, and redeeming itself, commenting on developments is quite appropriate and in-theme for this blog.

Right off the top of my head, there are several things to address, aside from all the military applications (a huge topic on its own).  We have the economics of the AI industry itself, confidentiality / privacy / privilege of the queries and output, marriage-market and social disruption from job losses, legal liability for decision / actions taken because of AI outputs, raising up the next generation of leaders who know enough on their own without AI to sanity-check AI output, socioeconomic disruption from job losses due to AI replacement, electrical power and cooling demands (more electricity and/or lots of water).

Military applications, and disruptions that come from new tech advances brought about by AI are huge and complex and speculative, worthy of long essays in their own rights.
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How and why education “suddenly” went Marxist

Conspiracy, Current News, Education, History, politics

Sometimes you watch events happen in real time and it looks absolutely insane and inexplicable, totally at odds with any sort of reasonable and observable reality. You search in vain for any sort of coherent explanation that doesn’t sound to a normie like a total wingnut conspiracy theory, even if you think you have the broad strokes correct. Such is the case with modern “education” in America, where it’s got totally off the rails and deep into a bizarre inverted funhouse-mirror world of Marxist dysfunction, where the teachers and admins appear normal in some ways, but act like total blind cult devotees in others. Continue reading How and why education “suddenly” went Marxist →

K-12 Sex Ed

Current News, Education

Per RCW 28A.300.475 Starting next year, schools in WA state will be required to deliver “Comprehensive Sex Education” K-12. Specifically:
(2)(b) Beginning in the 2022-23 school year, comprehensive sexual health education must be provided to all public school students.
(c) The provision of comprehensive sexual health education to public school students as required by (a) and (b) of this subsection (2) must be provided no less than:
(i) Once to students in kindergarten through grade three;
(ii) Once to students in grades four through five;
(iii) Twice to students in grades six through eight; and
(iv) Twice to students in grades nine through twelve. Continue reading K-12 Sex Ed →

Constitutional Amendments

Blog Thoughts, Education

A common social studies class assignment, after spending a far-too-brief time studying our own constitution,  is to ask the students for proposed amendment to correct perceived shortcomings in our legal system. Most of them are laughably bad, of course, as most students don’t really understand how the parts of it work together, don’t appreciate the freedoms it recognizes, nor the actions of unintended consequences when there are  changing incentives. So, here are a couple of mine. Feel free to add your own thoughts. Continue reading Constitutional Amendments →

The connection between CRT and the trans/gay agenda

Conspiracy, Current News, Education, Research

Some things, such as optical illusions, can hard to see at first, but once seen are clear. I came across a very clearly written post that connects some of the political / activist left’s action plan in a way that makes a whole lot of sense. The scariest part of it is that most of the average people pushing each of these things are basically good, well-meaning people, they will not see it, and think they are unrelated, and have no idea how much damaged they are doing. I’m including the full text as well as the links to the original posts, as it is more than likely one or both at some point will get nuked at some point.

The original Gab that lead me to it. The source thread. Continue reading The connection between CRT and the trans/gay agenda →

In witch the fiziks are rong

Education, History, Release

In my story The Stars Came Back faster-than-light travel and anti-gravity was accomplished by some general hand-waving and techno-babble about physics implied to be more advanced than what we have today here on earth. But what if… what if our fundamental understanding of physics is wrong? Not just in the way that General and Special relativity  supposedly updated and refined Newtonian physics, but that the basic underlying principled about the universe, including the math in Einstein’s theories, are flat-out wrong?  What if all the string-theory research, phycisists looking for dark matter, scientists trying to perfect nuclear fusion, etc., are all barking up the wrong tree in terms of the basic nature of the problems they are working with? Here are some things for the science and engineering sorts to geek out on. It is looking more and more likely that they are. Continue reading In witch the fiziks are rong →

Three-minute summary of the history of slavery, suitable for a HS history class

Education, History

Deliberately omitting essential information needed to understand something is a “lie of omission.” This is a common problem in school, sometimes for understandable reasons like time limitations, other times for bad reasons like pushing a political agenda. Just about every people of any significance in world history has practiced slavery, and been slaves. Continue reading Three-minute summary of the history of slavery, suitable for a HS history class →