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> Why would humans even have the drive to learn stuff Because someone still has to make decisions. Much as the educational-industrial complex would have you b
by lisper 3y ago
> Why would humans even have the drive to learn stuff
Because someone still has to make decisions. Much as the educational-industrial complex would have you believe otherwise, living the good life does not equate with getting the right answers on standardized tests.
One of the unfortunate aspects of the education system we've built over the last several hundred years is that it conceals this from most people. This is because the purpose of the system is to feed a societal system where a very small number of people make decisions and the rest are expected simply to obey orders. There is nothing necessarily wrong with that, but it's really important not to lose sight of the fact that replacing the current education system with AI is not the same as replacing educated people with AI, or even the same as replacing all of education with AI.
- fragmede 3y agoUntil we decide that decisions can also be made by AI, that is.
- ben_w 3y agoPlenty of people have already made the decision to delegate decisions to AI. We generally hear about this under headlines like "man attempts to drive into ocean while following satnav" or "flash crash in stock market caused by algorithmic traders" or https://money.cnn.com/2013/03/05/smallbusiness/keep-calm-and-carry-on/index.html https://money.cnn.com/2013/03/05/smallbusiness/keep-calm-and...
- MathMonkeyMan 3y ago> Plenty of people have already made the decision to delegate decisions to AI. That got me thinking.
- lisper 3y agoThe problem is that decisions can only be made with respect to some quality metric, and deciding what that should be cannot be delegated. Only you can know what you want.
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- ben_w 3y agoThe other problem is we often say "it's common sense!" as a result of someone (or something) else following our metrics in a technically correct way that's totally not what we meant.