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by futureshock 357 days ago
I think the hard solution is to massively increase expectations. Think Star Trek where the grade schoolers are learning quantum mechanics. If everyone has access to the oracle of all human knowledge, then you should teach and test to the maximum of what a student could do with all that power. Find the frontier where the AI fails and the human adds value and teach there.
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Learning requires both reasoning and knowledge. Grade schoolers almost universally lack the ability to reason needed to understand QM, simply having access to the information isn't enough to learn the subject.
So many on here keep saying stuff like this but it seems to just ignore any theory of learning. “Just make it harder”. Sure, any examples of how that’d work? “Quantum physics.” OK then, problem solved. That isn’t really explaining anything about how this should work.
Yes.. but quantum physics does sound pretty great for my kids to learn!
“Sounds pretty great“ isn’t getting us any further on this.