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Well, it’s either a that, or we took a bunch of resources from all over the world by force. Maybe a bit of both?
Who took resources by force? For comparison, Ireland is amongst the richest places in Europe these days, and they never colonised anyone. They used to be colonised.
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> Now any remote learning will need physical examination I don't think so. Proving you can pass a test is pretty useless imo. Especially when it typically boils down to a memorization test and the subject matter is largely irrelevant.
Proving you can pass an open book test ? Or doing graded assignments? That wasn’t something possible prior to LLMs. Being able to cheat code or generate homework assignments was not this trivial either.
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Who took resources by force? For comparison, Ireland is amongst the richest places in Europe these days, and they never colonised anyone. They used to be colonised.
I’m talking about my home, the dear old US of A. And every other western country besides Ireland to a greater or lesser extent.
(And even more, you'd expect to see a causal connection. So you'd need to exclude the alternative explanation that rich countries engage in a bit of colonisation as a rich man's hobby. And there's plenty of other correlations without causation.)
We could run a formal statistical analysis. But just have a look at Portugal and Spain. They ran extensive colonial empires, but aren't exactly rich these days. Germany and the Nordic countries were rather less involved in colonies, and are rather rich.
Russia ran and runs an extensive colonial empire, and they are comparatively poor (and we know that what wealth they have comes from oil and gas).
The Netherlands ran a big colonial empire and they are rich.
> I’m talking about my home, the dear old US of A.
The core of what became the US was already rich before they even stopped being colonies, and long before they had any colonies of their own.
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Proving you can pass an open book test ? Or doing graded assignments? That wasn’t something possible prior to LLMs. Being able to cheat code or generate homework assignments was not this trivial either.
I think people need to figure out how to demonstrate they can add value on top of AI rather than showing they can do it all from scratch with a "closed book".
A better example would be “we don’t use fork lifts to do our gym exercises”
The whole issue with AI is the verification labour. This requires people to have the skill / discernment to make out if the output is useless or not.
Building this human capability is fundamentally a product of learning, training and experience. All of which require exams, tests and verification.
The way I see it, generative AI has been introducing a lot of distrust into systems that worked "fine" previously, such as rendering homework ineffective in the case of education, making verification difficult for remote interviewing, flooding the internet with low-quality noise (aka slop) that makes it difficult for reputable and researched sources of information to stand out, with all the implications it has for so…
> rendering homework ineffective Homework isn't any more ineffective imo. The way we educate and grade is. Imagine if people went to school to learn something rather than to "level up". And you earned a job based on what you know, or what you can do, rather than what degree you banked. Then maybe you would want to do the homework. If gen AI helps us flip the current system on it's head that would be a good thing.