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If a professor learns from multiple books, generalizes from them and then shares his knowledge he is providing a valuable service. Versus someone who makes a re
by petilon 3mo ago
If a professor learns from multiple books, generalizes from them and then shares his knowledge he is providing a valuable service. Versus someone who makes a recording of the professor's lectures and resells them to undercut the professor--that guy is not providing a valuable service.
- idle_zealot 3mo agoWhat about a student attending lectures of other professors and generalizing what he learns from them, then going on to become a professor?
- petilon 3mo agoIf the student is really good at generalizing we wouldn't even be having this debate because he would've just generalized from the same source materials the professor used.
- tux3 3mo agoWhat kind of fresh hell does the sentence "undercut the professor" come from? Teaching isn't a race to the bottom. You don't undercut teaching by giving more lessons, just like you don't slight the hospital by performing CPR.
- petilon 3mo agoWe are not really talking about teaching here.
- altruios 3mo agoWhat are you even trying to say: "undercut the professor"... The further you try to constrain this topic into this illformed analogy the weirder it becomes. If we start off with a better analogy...
- lelanthran 3mo ago> If a professor learns from multiple books, generalizes from them and then shares his knowledge he is providing a valuable service. Versus someone who makes a recording of the professor's lectures and resells them to undercut the professor--that guy is not providing a valuable service. I'm confused now; isn't the LLM that trains on that professor's lectures, videos and textbooks undercutting him? Where were you going with this?