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Respectfully, I think it's you who are missing the point. There is value in teaching humans to communicate and synthesize information. It's possible that in the

Respectfully, I think it's you who are missing the point. There is value in teaching humans to communicate and synthesize information. It's possible that in the future the best thinkers and philosophers and historians and political analysts will be AI, but 1/ we are very very far from that, and 2/ it's important for civilisation that we don't leave thinking to the machines.

mrtksn 4y ago
Exactly, educations is not a vocational school where we teach people useful skills so they start doing whatever they learned. Machines have long been able to do things that we teach in the schools, the purpose of teaching is developing people. Once they are developed(that means they built understanding of how nature and society works and how to interact with) and its time to expect an output, only then we can talk about teaching useful skills. Vocational schools do exist and they are useful but that's not what we are concerned about. People who cheat not to learn useful skills simply spend their time and money.
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ok_dad 4y ago
> There is value in teaching humans to communicate and synthesize information. Why just use the written word via essays? You could use other forms of media such as video, physical art, or maybe programming to teach this as well. The five paragraph essay isn’t the only game in town!
solarmist 4y ago
Similar arguments were/are made about the use of calculators. It will go the same way. You need to understand the basics (to various degrees depending on the direction of your education), then learn how to use the new tools we are creating. Honestly, I'd prefer we treat this as an opportunity to introduce tight feedback loops into essay writing the way we do with programming. Then evaluate the end result as a whole rather than a way to nitpick grammar rules.

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Respectfully, I think it's you who are missing the point. There is value in teaching humans to communicate and synthesize information. It's possible that in the

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mrtksn 4y ago
Exactly, educations is not a vocational school where we teach people useful skills so they start doing whatever they learned. Machines have long been able to do things that we teach in the schools, the purpose of teaching is developing people. Once they are developed(that means they built understanding of how nature and society works and how to interact with) and its time to expect an output, only then we can talk about teaching useful skills. Vocational schools do exist and they are useful but that's not what we are concerned about. People who cheat not to learn useful skills simply spend their time and money.
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ok_dad 4y ago
> There is value in teaching humans to communicate and synthesize information. Why just use the written word via essays? You could use other forms of media such as video, physical art, or maybe programming to teach this as well. The five paragraph essay isn’t the only game in town!
solarmist 4y ago
Similar arguments were/are made about the use of calculators. It will go the same way. You need to understand the basics (to various degrees depending on the direction of your education), then learn how to use the new tools we are creating. Honestly, I'd prefer we treat this as an opportunity to introduce tight feedback loops into essay writing the way we do with programming. Then evaluate the end result as a whole rather than a way to nitpick grammar rules.