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by palmotea 205 days ago
> AI will continue to stratify education.

> The typical student will get AI generated course content by the cheapest models.

> Other children will spend $1000s/month on multimodal AI tutors spinning up Python code to check their math homework. Those students will easily surpass others without individualized support.

The better-off children whose parents are "spend[ing] $1000s/month" will get real teachers who are people, not fancier AIs.

I mean look at food: The lower classes are eating industrially-processed McDonald's food, the upper classes are not eating more expensive but still industrially-processed stuff from McDonald's, they're eating organic, locally grown stuff from the farmer's market (which used to be the standard for food for everyone).

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Technology is still involved.

Good food is refrigerated and bad food is frozen, because it's cheaper to freeze as that preserves food indefinitely. This is true even at a farmer's market.