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> The best educators will adapt to AI. In some ways, the changes will be positive. Teachers must move away from mechanical activities or assigning simple summar

> The best educators will adapt to AI. In some ways, the changes will be positive. Teachers must move away from mechanical activities or assigning simple summaries. So much of education always comes down to efficiency, scale, and standardization. The best way to teach or test someone is by having a one-on-one conversation with them, coincidentally the least standardized. The most scalable and standardized way to do it is to publish some material and then asynchronously collect answers to a predefined set of multiple choice questions. It seems like everything you can fake or cheat on is a byproduct of choosing to be further along the efficiency/standardization/mechanization scale. Which is a byproduct of many many systemic factors, not least of which is funding. It's frustrating as hell that so many of our teaching problems have obvious answers that are in many ways better for the students anyways, but those answers just aren't systemically or economically feasible. Maybe they'll have to become more viable as our current, ultra-mechanical system breaks.

gigatree 2y ago
> It's frustrating as hell that so many of our teaching problems have obvious answers that are in many ways better for the students anyways, but those answers just aren't systemically or economically feasible. Maybe they'll have to become more viable as our current, ultra-mechanical system breaks. I think it’s a lie that they aren’t feasible, just like it’s a lie that sustainable, small-scale agriculture isn’t feasible. It’s more that the powerful are only interested in developing centralized systems because those are the ones they can control and profit from. You can’t indoctrinate without a standardized education system, you can’t price-fix without a monopoly/oligopoly, you can’t brainwash an entire population unless everyone’s watching the same thing controlled by the same entity. That said, it’s true that decentralized, sustainable systems aren’t feasible so long as there are people on earth vying for power over others.

gigatree 2y ago

> It's frustrating as hell that so many of our teaching problems have obvious answers that are in many ways better for the students anyways, but those answers just aren't systemically or economically feasible. Maybe they'll have to become more viable as our current, ultra-mechanical system breaks. I think it’s a lie that they aren’t feasible, just like it’s a lie that sustainable, small-scale agriculture isn’t feasible. It’s more that the powerful are only interested in developing centralized systems because those are the ones they can control and profit from. You can’t indoctrinate without a standardized education system, you can’t price-fix without a monopoly/oligopoly, you can’t brainwash an entire population unless everyone’s watching the same thing controlled by the same entity. That said, it’s true that decentralized, sustainable systems aren’t feasible so long as there are people on earth vying for power over others.