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> Every technical revolution “threatened to erode the critical thinking of a generation” Objectively, many of them did erode some amount of critical thinking,

> Every technical revolution “threatened to erode the critical thinking of a generation” Objectively, many of them did erode some amount of critical thinking, but led to skill transfer to other domains so maybe it was neutral. Some of them were productivity boons and we got the golden age that boomers hail from. Other revolutions have just been a straight degradation in QOL. Social Media and LLMs seem to be in that vein. I'd also throw in gambling ads/micro-transactions and smoking as things that haven't exactly helped society. Out of those four examples, we only tried to course correct on smoking and, after a long period of time, we can see it's a net benefit to not smoke. > I’m more worried about post-truth civilization than post-college writing civilization for sure. These are the same civilizations on the same timeline.

theptip 1y ago
> LLMs seem to be in that vein My opinion is that even if capabilities halted now, LLMs would be more economically valuable than the internet (compared over the same 50 year trajectory). And I predict that they will not halt any time soon. Maybe this yields more resources to invest in education like the OP author, and we end up more enriched than ever before: > I teach at a small liberal-arts college, and I often joke that a student is more likely to hand in a big paper a year late (as recently happened) than to take a dishonorable shortcut. My classes are small and intimate, driven by processes and pedagogical modes, like letting awkward silences linger, that are difficult to scale. The only thing I’m confident about is volatility, the range of outcomes is wide.
- SecretDreams 1y ago
  > Maybe this yields more resources to invest in education like the OP author, and we end up more enriched than ever before: Maybe maybe maybe Should we gamble on the lives of future gens for some economic maybes or should we take a minute to think through all probable outcomes and build out some safeguards?

theptip 1y ago

> LLMs seem to be in that vein My opinion is that even if capabilities halted now, LLMs would be more economically valuable than the internet (compared over the same 50 year trajectory). And I predict that they will not halt any time soon. Maybe this yields more resources to invest in education like the OP author, and we end up more enriched than ever before: > I teach at a small liberal-arts college, and I often joke that a student is more likely to hand in a big paper a year late (as recently happened) than to take a dishonorable shortcut. My classes are small and intimate, driven by processes and pedagogical modes, like letting awkward silences linger, that are difficult to scale. The only thing I’m confident about is volatility, the range of outcomes is wide.

SecretDreams 1y ago
> Maybe this yields more resources to invest in education like the OP author, and we end up more enriched than ever before: Maybe maybe maybe Should we gamble on the lives of future gens for some economic maybes or should we take a minute to think through all probable outcomes and build out some safeguards?