> That moment, when you start to understand the power of clear thinking, is crucial. The trouble with generative AI is that it short-circuits that process entir

> That moment, when you start to understand the power of clear thinking, is crucial. The trouble with generative AI is that it short-circuits that process entirely. One begins to suspect that a great many students wanted this all along: to make it through college unaltered, unscathed. To be precisely the same person at graduation, and after, as they were on the first day they arrived on campus. As if the whole experience had never really happened at all. If nothing else, LLMs have completely vindicated Bryan Caplan's signaling theory of education. The author of the piece comes across as really quite solipsistic and as somebody who has never attempted to understand the motivations of other people; it comes as a shock to him that they'd seek the path of least resistance.