“We’re sending kids to school to memorize facts that ChatGPT can retrieve in under a second.”
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Contrary to traditionalists' claims, rote memorization does not "train" the brain in a useful way that transfers. In fact, it can detract from higher-order thinking, not to mention how it wastes limited instructional time. And much of what kids are forced to commit to memory in a bunch-o'-facts curriculum is soon forgotten: https://www.alfiekohn.org/blogs/fuhgeddaboudit/
Where A.I. does prove harmful is in bypassing thinking, reading, researching, and writing. That's where the gym-class analogy makes sense.
@alfiekohn I'm amused by how everyone in this thread artfully calibrates the discussion to their own individual comfort level.
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@stux Boy, does this ever reflect how little these people know about actual humans. The skill of memorisation is one that we use our entire lives, and develops a brain with more capacity and better recall. What you're actually memorising doesn't matter. It's the skill of doing it that matters.
Yes.
Schools teach students how to learn and reason and interact with others while also exercising/stimulating connections in the brain.Learning fights incompetence and promotes social interactions which help people navigate their lives.
Incompetence results in doing things over again, and other things like donald.
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@Remittancegirl @stux "What you're actually memorising doesn't matter." is how we get abusive, bullshit-riddled schools completely detached from their stated purpose. What you're learning matters! And if you're actually learning, you shouldn't have to go out of your way to memorize.
@Remittancegirl @stux I'm sick and tired of apologism for torturous "education".
Especially the mass delusion of ill-defined nebulous positive side effects of torturous tedious memorization somehow making it the best way.
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@Remittancegirl @stux oh yes; I once complained as a student that they're teaching us things that were obsolete already or would become obsolete soon. I remember my later boss answering: "It's not important what you chew; the important thing is the training of your jaws…"
@blotosmetek @Remittancegirl @stux Literally arguing for lies in schools.
I'm blocking every nutcase in this thread, I can't take this shit.
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@ASprinkleofSage @stux Tell that to my history teacher (in the 60s/70s)!
@PaulNickson @ASprinkleofSage @stux School missed the whole point of school.
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@stux We are already starting to get people who cannot think without a stable internet connection
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“We’re sending kids to school to memorize facts that ChatGPT can retrieve in under a second.”
Yeah worst of all, gym classes are making them run a mile that Uber can cover in less than a minute@stux or 1.6 kilometres. rote learning is important. music and art classes should be funded so kids can play instruments and be creative.
stop promoting guber. guber's intention was to put taxi cabs out of business then raise prices. also, guber wants to destroy mass transit.
guber pays no taxes.
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@PaulNickson @ASprinkleofSage @stux School missed the whole point of school.
@ariarhythmic @PaulNickson @stux drawing cocks on desks
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“We’re sending kids to school to memorize facts that ChatGPT can retrieve in under a second.”
Yeah worst of all, gym classes are making them run a mile that Uber can cover in less than a minute@stux This assumes that the LLM pulls up "Facts" as opposed to some halucination.
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“We’re sending kids to school to memorize facts that ChatGPT can retrieve in under a second.”
Yeah worst of all, gym classes are making them run a mile that Uber can cover in less than a minute@stux
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@econads @landelare @stux This is exactly the same reason the same people who were yelling at kids "don't trust what you read on the internet" are now trusting every piece of propaganda and slop in their Facebook feeds.
Then, "on the internet" meant queer anarchist hackers. Now it means "right wing disinformation machines".
@dalias @econads @landelare @stux TBF there was a lot of BS in Wikipedia in physics, me and my fellow PhD student tried to correct some of the stuff - it got reverted to the wrong thing.
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“We’re sending kids to school to memorize facts that ChatGPT can retrieve in under a second.”
Yeah worst of all, gym classes are making them run a mile that Uber can cover in less than a minute@stux I can make more money on my video game than I could ever make in real life.
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“We’re sending kids to school to memorize facts that ChatGPT can retrieve in under a second.”
Yeah worst of all, gym classes are making them run a mile that Uber can cover in less than a minuteIgnorance and laziness have no limits, they never had…
The only tools we actually need is common sense, fact checking and critical thinking…
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“We’re sending kids to school to memorize facts that ChatGPT can retrieve in under a second.”
Yeah worst of all, gym classes are making them run a mile that Uber can cover in less than a minute@stux why learn a second language when you can just use a translator? Why cook food when you can just eat take out?
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@stux Or teaching math that pocket calculators have been able to do since the ~80's
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@stux Boy, does this ever reflect how little these people know about actual humans. The skill of memorisation is one that we use our entire lives, and develops a brain with more capacity and better recall. What you're actually memorising doesn't matter. It's the skill of doing it that matters.
@Remittancegirl @stux Or how little they know about the education system and it's purpose.
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“We’re sending kids to school to memorize facts that ChatGPT can retrieve in under a second.”
Yeah worst of all, gym classes are making them run a mile that Uber can cover in less than a minute@stux JFC we are doomed
I should practice more.