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I am one of the people vehemently defending the position that many of us will not be replaced by AI in the near future, as we will have other "better" things to do. It isn't clear to me, though, that any of those things will be possible unless we have a solid background in logic and thought, which we humans improve on by doing symbol manipulation (writing, math, coding, etc.). Which has the unfortunate effect that, even if we aren't forced to go away, the world could devolve quite quickly if we surrender it by simply deciding that kids doing stuff computers can already do is pointless, even as a training exercise. FWIW, I want to also not be too concerned about this issue with essay writing, as we already have had this problem for a while now in math with first calculators and then stuff like Mathematica, and somehow we keep learning math?... ...Though, I'm honestly not quite so sure we have been learning math as well in the past 10 years or so, so maybe I'm wrong; and, since I also am unsure how you are right in my stead (I'd need an explanation of what children will do to prepare themselves for the future other than learn to write), maybe we're doomed :(. |