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A Society of Cheats
- bell-cot 1mo agoOne wonders how much push-back businesses might get, if they said "don't bother putting any post-2020 college on your resume, we've switched to proctored pencil-and-paper tests of whether you know more than how to prompt an AI".
- MattGaiser 1mo agoThe thing is thought that business seems quite happy with the AI prompting. Business has never paid a premium for slop vs knowledge when it is good enough.
- bell-cot 1mo agoSo maybe the slop-is-good-enough AI-prompting jobs all go to Elbonian teenagers? Perhaps American college enrollment in on the brink of a 10X implosion.
- Avicebron 1mo agohttps://archive.is/91DZ5 https://archive.is/91DZ5 It's all economics at the end of the day. If you see yourself as having to compete with the entirety of china, india, and wherever else in your classroom so that you can get the 500K starting salary + all benefits vs crushing debt, 45K starting, no health insurance, no chance of home ownership etc, then obviously cheating will be prevalent. Fix the economics of higher-ed and careers, and the academic spirit will return.
- bell-cot 1mo ago> Fix the economics of ... Yes...but sadly a cure for cancer seems far more likely. Any real fix would run against far too many entrenched interests.
- nlawalker 1mo agoGift link: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/08/ai-use-college-cheat/688451/?gift=Ex_YT3j3w4bpWvzqHtkwO9udlKY_XMcMMxp_JKNi4NE https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/08/ai-use-college-che...