Barnaby Taylor

Can this be a solution?

About seven years ago I asked a stupid question in a seminar that I remember with toe-curling embarrassment to this day. Today, I learned a piece of information that explains why I was confused on the point.

"Some professors have for many years been giving oral examinations in the old Oxford and Cambridge tutorial style, where students read their papers aloud, and the professor interrupts to ask questions like 'What do you mean by that word? What does that phrase mean?'"

Alcohol has no single benefit, not one.

My instinct is that it will not “destroy” them so much as complete the bifurcation of blue and red society. The blue system that encompasses 99 percent of the universities you could name will continue churning out bullshit degrees to clueless, fanatical, and/or cynical students for potentially decades, and will lie to itself that LLM usage does not amount to a negation of its purpose (and, the donors will pat it on the head for a while). The red system, which is just starting to emerge, whatever form it takes, may actually just ban or strictly limit AI in classrooms and cater to students who want to learn (and its graduates - whoever exactly they are, will be sought after in economic sectors that value real learning). Over time, AI is just so socially and even economically toxic that red probably will gain the edge, as we are already seeing with things like reproduction and literacy rates in previously backwater red states. Unless blue succeeds in wiping it out (which is the implication of its rhetoric). But the sooner red types recognize that AI is a blue faction invention designed to solve blue faction problems, including the existence of the red faction itself, and that it is a devil’s promise otherwise, the better off red is.