"[AI] tempts us to mistake verbal fluency for understanding itself. A student can submit polished prose without having really grappled with the question. A rese

"[AI] tempts us to mistake verbal fluency for understanding itself. A student can submit polished prose without having really grappled with the question. A researcher can produce a competent summary without having seen the problem clearly. A professional can sound informed without having formed a judgment. The danger is not only dishonesty - it is substitution." There are lots of HN commenters who dislike formal education. Many of them seem to admire people who dropped out of school but became wealthy without earning a degree, like Zuckerberg, Gates and so on Greg Brockman of OpenAI is another college dropout