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Frumpagumpus t1_j3wpxno wrote

Reply to comment by LoquaciousAntipodean in Australian universities to return to ‘pen and paper’ exams after students caught using AI to write essays | Australian universities by geeceeza

so basically have high school students defend a phd thesis lol

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LoquaciousAntipodean t1_j3x5jp0 wrote

Yeah, why not? Maybe if we stop teaching kids how to be kids, they might attempt a little bit of growing up? Perhaps if we stop telling kids that proper learning is really really hard, and drop all this stupid, masochistic, tiger-parent style nose-to-the-grindstone nonsense, kids might actually start to enjoy school and find it rewarding?

I don't know, stranger things have happened. Got to be worth a try, surely.

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Frumpagumpus t1_j3xa4wm wrote

i dont have a problem with it XD, just thought it was a funny image

never defended a phd thesis myself so couldnt speak to the difficulty of it

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LoquaciousAntipodean t1_j3xbosu wrote

Neither have I, I agree, it's a pretty absurd mental picture. But then I thought about it some more and asked myself, 'but why, though?'. Why should young kids be intimidated and afraid of higher education? Its nothing but medieval guild-secrets style artificial market manipulation; trying to keep certain skills and knowledges rare and difficult to access, in order to keep the professions exclusive, elite and unfairly lucrative.

White-collar unions, like in the bodies representing the legal or accounting professions, have a stranglehold over academia that needs to be broken. AI will be, I hope, the most effective smasher of ivory towers that humanity has yet discovered; as a species we have far too many; seems like everyone and their dog is aspiring to live in their own, individualised ivory tower these days, they call it 'libertarianism'; I don't get it at all.

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Frumpagumpus t1_j3xe2rj wrote

i agree civilization does seem to be heading in a direction similar to the spacers in isaac asimovs robots of dawn.

i can somewhat understand the sentiment though lol. ppl r complicated, can be hard to be around

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