Nobelium

AGI for artificial intelligence will be what Kitty Hawk was for flight. Right now we're at the paper airplane stage of AI capability.

And it is going to happen. Probably very soon. I don't think people realize just how much money and resources are currently being devoted to achieving it. Adjusted for inflation, American tech companies are spending more money per year on AI research and development than the entire costs of the Manhattan Project and Apollo Program, combined. And they're not doing it to fool more boomers with Sora clips or help high-schoolers write better essays about books they didn't read.

The first jet aircraft took flight 36 years after Kitty Hawk. The SR-71 came 61 years after the Wright Flyer. I cannot imagine what the world is going to look like 60 years after AGI is achieved.

I agree with you. I think every situation has to be looked at in its entirety and purely material gains shouldn't be the primary driver of the decision of where to send your children to college. "For what shall it profit a man . . ." The environment of forced compliance with leftism in all its forms is truly oppressive on a campus like Brown, and it permeates every aspect of life there. That's an overwhelmingly difficult crucible to ask your 18 year old child to undergo and be strong enough to come out on the other side as the type of person you'd want them to be.

I was simply pointing out the inaccuracy of the other extreme that I often see in threads like this, that it literally doesn't matter at all where you go and that enough gumption and elbow grease will get you to the same material endpoint regardless of the university you attend.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.