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We will solve the cheating problem with more AI, all essays will need to be written in 3 hour time windows in web portals with key-logging + copilot off and chi
by fullshark 2y ago
We will solve the cheating problem with more AI, all essays will need to be written in 3 hour time windows in web portals with key-logging + copilot off and children on webcam the entire time. An AI will assess all the data and tell you if the child cheated or not.
Of course no one will care if you're good at writing essays in the future, and having that skill just means you're working a low paying training data creation job, but we will carry on pretending otherwise for a few years.
- graypegg 2y agoThat sounds dystopian… Essay writing is not a task intended to make you specifically better at writing more essays. It’s supposed to train your ability to explain your point of view clearly and with sound reasoning.
- dimator 2y agoNo one has ever cared of you're good at writing essays in the future, that was true 50 years ago. The point of writing an essay was to (imo) get good at writing (actually assembling words cogently), thinking about a cohesive viewpoint/argument, and understanding the source material (book, novel, historical event, political concept, whatever). I'm
- cocoa19 2y agoThe human ran out of tokens writing this response
- xigency 2y agoPlease scan your can of participating Mountain Dew or Starbucks to unlock the next 150 key presses on your keyboard. (Yes Thank You) (Remind Me Later)
- MathMonkeyMan 2y agoI tend to think of any substantial writing we do at work as an essay. Proposal, summary, RFC, employee evaluation, whatever. You can tell who writes well, and who is copy/pasting plausibly relevant text into an unedited draft that they then pass off as the final result. Not AI, just sloppy writing. I don't have numbers to back it, but I think that the good writing gets more done in less time. So, people care if you're good at writing essays. Then there's the whole "clear writing is clear thinking" angle, but I suspect that people who write poorly do so out of laziness rather than any deficiency.
- redwall_hp 2y agoI want to work with people who can communicate thoughts effectively and will write some damn documentation. People who whine about writing being difficult or unimportant are going to be deficient in both.
- pylua 2y agoJust for their essays to fed into an llm at the end of the day owned by mega corp.
- numpad0 2y ago> with key-logging + copilot off That assumes Microsoft allowing you to do so.
- brewdad 2y agoI sort of had that in my HS English classes more than 30 years ago. Every paper we ever wrote for my final two years was in class for one hour. Occasionally we would get a second class period to work on our papers but the teacher held them until the next class period. I got really good at getting my thoughts down quickly and efficiently. My freshman English course in college nearly broke me however since we were required to revise our papers at least twice after getting feedback, even if the feedback as overwhelmingly positive. It was a skill I had never developed.