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> if teachers want students to write something on which AI can get high scores, then whatever they're teaching is obsolete Doing trivial things is often the fi
by dmm 3y ago
> if teachers want students to write something on which AI can get high scores, then whatever they're teaching is obsolete
Doing trivial things is often the first step in learning how to do non-trivial things. No one has ever needed a five paragraph essay. It's a completely artificial construct that, hopefully, teaches people to structure an essay.
Electronic calculators have existed for decades but we're still teaching kids arithmetic.
- fluoridation 3y ago>we're still teaching kids arithmetic. I remain unconvinced that it's a worthwhile use of time.
- dmm 3y agoLLMs can read from images. Should we stop teaching reading?
- fluoridation 3y agoMy argument is not "if a machine can do it then it's not worth a human's time to do it". Reading provides advantages that doing arithmetic by hand does not.