I'm thinking lawyer, since legal skills aren't as portable across international borders?

>Intentionally lowering the quality of instruction, as well as deliberately trying to trip students up on exams

I was happy with the quality of the instruction, and I didn't feel I was being "tripped up" on exams.

It's not about "hunger games", it's about challenging students to learn a lot of material and learn it well. Again, if that's not what you want, just don't attend.

The number of places where this environment exists is getting smaller every year: https://xcancel.com/CJHandmer/status/2060144837157118307#m

I'm glad the professors at Cal are working to preserve it there.

As a Cal alum, I am actually really glad to see they are holding the line on grade inflation. I worked my butt off to achieve the GPA I did, and it would really suck to see my labor devalued if Cal went the direction of e.g. Yale and started handing out 79% A's and A-minuses: https://yaledailynews.com/articles/professors-face-grading-d...

https://www.multpl.com/shiller-pe

Valuations are literally at 1999 levels, and that's before the coming IPOs. No wonder they chose this moment to IPO.

Wikipedia states most capital in the late 1800s railroad bubble in the USA was "involved in projects offering no immediate or early returns" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1873

* It's a bubble, it crashes (no moat etc.)

* It's not a bubble, we get superintelligence, it's not nice, it squishes us all like bugs

* It's not a bubble, we get superintelligence, it's nice, we all get UBI

From the perspective of your personal financial security, the range of scenarios where you want to invest in Anthropic seems rather narrow. And I don't like to fund the creation of something which might squish me like a bug.

https://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/datafile...

100x is staggering. These companies are priced as though we are already chewing through the solar system to create AI computronium. I'll pass--I expect I'll get a UBI when that scenario happens anyway.

https://etfdb.com/etfs/size/large-cap/

You could switch to one that focuses on stocks which pay dividends, for example. That should provide a bit of protection against an AI market crash:

https://etfdb.com/etf/VIG/#etf-ticker-profile

So-called "smart beta" ETFs are also interesting. https://etfdb.com/themes/smart-beta-etfs/

Here are some factors I would expect to rule out the frothiest stocks:

"Quality Factor ETFs are made up of securities deemed to exhibit strong fundamental characteristics. These ETFs screen for stocks that have healthy balance sheets, encouraging growth prospects, and consistent improvements in their earnings."

https://etfdb.com/themes/quality-factor-etfs/

"Value-centric ETFs invest in securities deemed to possess value characteristics, including those operating in stable industries with relatively low price-to-earnings ratios."

https://etfdb.com/etfs/style/value/

"Low Volatility ETFs invest in securities with low volatility characteristics. These funds tend to have relatively stable share prices, and higher than average yields."

https://etfdb.com/etfs/investment-style/low-volatility/

Be sure to check the expense ratios on smart beta ETFs. Generally, the more sophisticated the stock screening, the more they will charge you in management fees.

As long as you're thinking about your portfolio, you may wish to consider international diversification in case the US economy implodes somehow: https://etfdb.com/themes/international-equity-etfs/

Personally, I keep my portfolio extremely conservative. My bet is that if the singularity arrives, we will all either die, or get UBI. I don't particularly care about having more moons than the other guy: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/you-have-only-x-years-to-es...