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Is there a difference between cheating in school and hacking school? I think so. I almost never studied for math tests in University. They were all multiple cho

Is there a difference between cheating in school and hacking school? I think so. I almost never studied for math tests in University. They were all multiple choice and I found it easy to logic out the only possible answer to the question just by looking at the choices. Worst case if I was in a hurry I'd get a B on an exam. I wasn't looking up the answers and skipping any work. I was just arriving at the prescribed optimal outcome (a good grade) without following the schools preferred method. This is what AI feels like to me. It's a very useful, but very flawed tool. In its current state, if I try and make it do my work for me, I'm going to have a very bad time. It's a "hack", not a "cheat." It's a new way of doing work, not a replacement for work.

ragnese 3y ago
> Is there a difference between cheating in school and hacking school? I think so. For sure. My anecdote is only tangentially related to the topic of this post, but I always told my physics 1 students that cheating (when it came to their homework) was a state of mind, rather than an action. Most students had access to the solutions manual for their (very standard and popular) textbook, even though they weren't "supposed to". Several times I had students sheepishly admit to me that they had consulted the solutions manual, and still didn't understand the solution to a particular problem. That right there is an example of NOT cheating, because they consulted the solution with the proper mindset: they attempted the problem, got stuck, and THEN consulted a solution with the INTENTION OF LEARNING. However, a student that just pulls out the solutions manual to quickly get the problems done without attempting it themselves were cheating in my view. It didn't often matter, anyway, because these students often did terribly on the exams and had trouble passing (who would've guessed?).
_dain_ 3y ago
>I almost never studied for math tests in University. They were all multiple choice and I found it easy to logic out the only possible answer to the question just by looking at the choices. How does an entirely multiple-choice mathematics exam at University level even work? What kind of maths? I don't see how any kind of proof or derivation question could work in this context.
Walter75 3y ago
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ragnese 3y ago

> Is there a difference between cheating in school and hacking school? I think so. For sure. My anecdote is only tangentially related to the topic of this post, but I always told my physics 1 students that cheating (when it came to their homework) was a state of mind, rather than an action. Most students had access to the solutions manual for their (very standard and popular) textbook, even though they weren't "supposed to". Several times I had students sheepishly admit to me that they had consulted the solutions manual, and still didn't understand the solution to a particular problem. That right there is an example of NOT cheating, because they consulted the solution with the proper mindset: they attempted the problem, got stuck, and THEN consulted a solution with the INTENTION OF LEARNING. However, a student that just pulls out the solutions manual to quickly get the problems done without attempting it themselves were cheating in my view. It didn't often matter, anyway, because these students often did terribly on the exams and had trouble passing (who would've guessed?).

_dain_ 3y ago

>I almost never studied for math tests in University. They were all multiple choice and I found it easy to logic out the only possible answer to the question just by looking at the choices. How does an entirely multiple-choice mathematics exam at University level even work? What kind of maths? I don't see how any kind of proof or derivation question could work in this context.

Walter75 3y ago

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