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by nwhnwh 41 days ago
> The prevalence of AI use on college campuses, particularly at “elite” universities, is a cancer on our culture that threatens to turn a generation of promising young Americans into a class of drooling morons...

Modern education is like that, even before AI. Check this https://www.jstor.org/stable/25006902

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Right. I got my bachelors degree more than a decade ago, and they did a good enough job of it without AI. College was the first time in my life that I'd ever heard, "You cannot aspire to [ambition]," and I heard it there quite a few times.

Higher education needs reform more intensive than a simple defense against LLMs (as does the legal system and profession, as does the software engineering field, as does the field of psychology/psychiatry, as does-).

Yeah... Most professionals are just cogs in the machine and a discussion for a few minutes with them would reveal how ignorant they are about humanities, for example.
> Check this

Evidence of people complaining about a thing isn’t evidence of the thing per se.

Your "intelligence" failed to show you that I didn't refer to it as an evidence.
How exactly is it that you think Enzensberger is arguing against nwhnwh's point. Will an excerpt from Discourse Networks 1800/1900 be far behind, be still my heart
I don't understand.