[ExI] ai in education

[Keith Henson]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2026 at 9:47 AM spike jones via extropy-chat
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> Regarding universities becoming obsolete: I agree.  We already have good examples of people who get a specific vision of where they want to go, and can drill deeper, faster on their own compared to a university setting.

For an extremely small number, they can do that.  However, a broad
education is essential for entry into the educated (power) class.
Technical people don't get a lot of that, and it hurts us.  We often
don't get the illusions people make in conversations.  Some of us pick
it up from reading.  However, the classroom experience exposes you to
a range of ideas.

 Note Eliezer eschewed the academic path all together.  As far as I
know, he never took a college class, never set foot on a university
campus.

Except as a lecturer.  I don't believe he even graduated from high
school.  But Eliezer is an inordinately rare kind of person, a good
deal less than one in a million.  Most of us need the guided study you
get at a university.

Keith
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> Kelly (welcome back (I haven’t seen a post from you in a while)) it was an eye-opener for me to watch how my own Science Olympiad team used ChatGPT at a training tool when it first showed up in late 2022.
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