RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@gregeganSF/116606390500783662

I do not understand how AI is allowed to be so utterly useless.

Well, I mean I do, it's money, but deep down in the core of my being I do not understand.

FFS

@eclectech Oh, I just finished his book. Oh no, I can read two chapters of the latest one for free, I'm doomed.
Back to the post... I think at this point it's something like Olympic training. It takes a lot of healthy children and produces a lot of disappointed children, some of them traumatised, and a few of them are actual successful athletes. Do people think that Olympic training is flawed? Mostly no, as long as it produces those few athletes. Compared to say school systems that ought to produce 100% of children that can read, after N years or months, depending on the language.
I don't know why it isn't treated like school though, being a widespread, non-niche thing.
@triffen Oh that's an interesting angle. Absolutely should be judged as a school would (although I have to say I'm largely disapproving of Olympic training too - the little I have heard suggests treating people quite badly & I just don't value the 'successes' enough).