And when they got out into the field with their dubious degrees, they had daddy’s connections to land a gig where they never needed to actually use the knowledge they pretended to have.
Not sure what we’re gonna do now that problem-solving positions are about to be filled by people whose only training is to produce incremental remixes of old solutions to well-documented problems.
Particularly with climate change promising to invalidate some fundamental assumptions baked into the literature of a significant chunk of our most important professions.
If understanding first principles means you move slower, look less polished, and are at odds with the majority of the paid staff in the field, then you’re not gonna make it.
And there’s a feedback loop, too. If it’s easiest to produce stuff that agrees with everything that came before, then that’s all we’ll make, and that’s all we’ll train new AIs on, so that’s what will continue to be easiest to produce.
Before AI, rich kids hired poor smart kids to write all their papers for them.
Real classes had exams where you could bring all your notes and textbooks and you still failed.
And when they got out into the field with their dubious degrees, they had daddy’s connections to land a gig where they never needed to actually use the knowledge they pretended to have.
Not sure what we’re gonna do now that problem-solving positions are about to be filled by people whose only training is to produce incremental remixes of old solutions to well-documented problems.
Particularly with climate change promising to invalidate some fundamental assumptions baked into the literature of a significant chunk of our most important professions.
If understanding first principles means you move slower, look less polished, and are at odds with the majority of the paid staff in the field, then you’re not gonna make it.
And there’s a feedback loop, too. If it’s easiest to produce stuff that agrees with everything that came before, then that’s all we’ll make, and that’s all we’ll train new AIs on, so that’s what will continue to be easiest to produce.