I won’t claim this is by design, but at the very least a side effect of writing term papers is getting practice at organizing your thoughts and drawing conclusi

I won’t claim this is by design, but at the very least a side effect of writing term papers is getting practice at organizing your thoughts and drawing conclusions from them. While writing term papers is a skill that is only minimally useful in the real world (save for grant writers and post docs, pretty much), the patterns of thinking it encourages are valuable to everything that isn’t ditch digging. Maybe we can outsource this part of our cognition to AI, but I’m skeptical of the wisdom of doing so. Are we all going to break to consult ChatGPT in strategy meetings?