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Say what? That is exactly what a high school essay is. Many of them are of poor quality, because students need to learn. Learning algebra in school and getting
by blactuary 2y ago
Say what? That is exactly what a high school essay is. Many of them are of poor quality, because students need to learn. Learning algebra in school and getting a bunch of problems wrong doesn't mean you are not learning math. You don't learn to do anything without failing at it initially.
ChatGPT has a "waffly" style of writing because it is incapable of thinking, it's simply trying to predict the next word.
- Swizec 2y agoI realized we probably come from different educational environments. Maybe mine just wasn’t as effective as yours. If you learned good/effective communications skills from high school essays, kudos! I did not, but I did enjoy the process and writing essays was one of my fav activities in school. Just that the “effective” part came way later :)
- blactuary 2y agoYou were indeed learning to communicate more effectively. Maybe more slowly than was possible if you were in a very poor educational environment, but you were learning. And more importantly and in context: you were learning in a way that AI/LLM cannot. Let's try to ensure that no one else has to learn in a substandard environment instead of abandoning teaching kids how to write and communicate and replace it with something that can never do it as well as a human.