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inanutshellus 43 minutes ago

I'd expect this to be temporary while the educational system figures out how to manage LLM-bolstered students.

The intern I worked with last year said her graduating class all felt like they were the last "real" graduates. Meaning: the class after her had less credibility in her eyes, having been presumed to have used AI to get past the "pons asinorum"/"bridge of asses".

pocksuppet 29 minutes ago | parent [-]

That depends if there's still a demand for educated people. Doesn't matter how good they are for society - only how much demand there is. If there's no demand, the schools have no reason to change.

inanutshellus 22 minutes ago | parent [-]

We'll call ourselves "Eloi"[1], I guess?

On the one hand, one really can't remove all of humanity from the economy. Humans are what makes the economy matter, and if you cut them all out, they'll just replace the economy with something else, call it "the economy", and move on. ("Butlerian Jihad" pivot, I suppose.)

On the other hand... I'm reminded of dock workers and the advent of container ships. The only way to handle that was to basically pay those workers a living wage for the rest of their lives to ... not work.

So... we have options, I guess!

  [1] In Orson Welles's Time Machine, the eloi were the lazy "child-like" humans not challenged to grow intellectually.