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In the Uber or in school?

Waay back in high school I had a teacher who just aimed for getting an essay written at all. He had one assignment per week: a 5 paragraph essay due every Friday.

If you turned one in: automatic 75%, baseline. Turn in garbage each week? C grade free. He even said you could turn the same essay in each week. 75%. C.

If you missed it, 0% no make-up work.

A lot of the class failed.

You're right, but there's no easy way to grade the effort without looking at the final result. That's how you end up with a school system that prioritizes test results so much it ends up teaching students how to pass a test instead of learning and processing information.

I never thought this would need saying, but the point of writing essays in school is not the final product.

Surely people don't really think that? I say that, and then I think about some of the colossally stupid things I've heard people say and say about education.

Yeah but the point of American school isnt to teach kids to learn and use information. Its too produce obedient and detail oriented workers. Memorizing and regurting information correctly only to dump it for the next project is much more profitable.

Exactly. School isn't really about memorizing facts, it's about learning and going Critical Thinking Skills. That's how humans are supposed to think, and without it, people substitute chaotic thinking that makes them susceptible to manipulation.

Also, it teaches us how to interact with other humans, so our first instinct isn't just to KILL them.

That's why we go to school.

I love how some people are ready to just give up on everything now that AI can do it

I'm sorry, but can you please attach the youtok link to your comment. I need to hear what you said, since I can't read...

To graduate from my (American) high school, you needed a given number of gym points, and you were given one gym point per day of gym class. But, I learned, you earned one and a half gym points per day of dance class! I figured this was a great scam: I already hated gym class, so I'd get my points out the way faster.

Fast forward a couple of months, and I'm working harder than I ever was in gym class, I'm enjoying myself more, and I'm hanging out with girls in leotards first thing every school day. There was literally no downside.

My middle school in the us made us learn to waltz in gym class. I'm ass at it, but it was fun.

We went to dance classes all throughout I think eight grade and learned a few of the classical dances. Waltz, Foxtrott, Cha-Cha, Tango. That's Eastern Germany in the early 2000s.

We can't have people forming their own ideas.

People reliant on LLMs are just participating in an any% dementia speedrun. It's a social experiment, of sorts.

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If that's really her point then I think it gets a bit lost in the second point about essays?

Nope, this is a common thought amongst those impressed by AI. And I can relate coz when I was in school, no one would give a good answer to why I needed to do any arithmetics without a calculator.

Realistically, schools were designed to provide a trainable workforce that could read well enough to learn new tasks and do enough math to make sure the factory machines were properly maintained.

Many people these days don't read a single book after they get out of school. The AIs are just making things happen faster.