In an online discussion post, Alcorn State University history professor Dr. Jason Gibson posed a question that represented part of his students’ midterm. It was about the…

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    6 hours ago

    People are dumb. People will always be dumb, there’s no getting away from it.

    We are just apes after all.

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      It’s not that we’re solely dumb and incapable of intelligence, it’s that many, if not most, will seek the solution with the lowest energy required. In turn, AI is creating a spiraling of learning and knowledge acquisition.

      Who knows where civilization lands in 20 years.

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      Yes, but school is there to teach you to use brain. Why go school if no use brain?

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          Goodhart’s law: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

          Used to be that a college degree indicated people with time, money, and drive to put four years into study. It was a good measure of the “right” kind of person. Now it’s just another job requirement and doesn’t indicate anything.

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        Teenagers aren’t really known for making great decisions.

        Source: was once a teenager, made bad decisions.

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        Why pay astronomical tuition, room and board, textbooks, all of it, just to learn nothing and use chat got. The bottom of the article said a professor at Brown thought all but 2 of his students cheated. At Brown. We’re so fucked.