<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Our highly competitive formal education system leads children to associate learning with stress. The inflexible system for scientific research dissemination sucks the pleasure out of scientific writing and results in tedious papers that are painful to read.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Learning should be inherently pleasant and self motivated, not stressful. Science should incite curiosity and wonder, not conjure tedium.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Technology is bringing change. Instructors can no longer flay students with mind-numbing busywork assignments as solutions can often be found online and AI technology such as ChatGPT is now capable of solving most problems students are faced with. Large language models are becoming better and better and are now capable of intelligently assisting with all forms of writing, eliminating much of the tedium. The days of pain will no longer be plenty.<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 5, 2023, at 2:55 PM, Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" class="">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div style="display: block;" class=""><div style="-webkit-user-select: all; -webkit-user-drag: element; display: inline-block;" class="apple-rich-link" draggable="true" role="link" data-url="https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-review"><a style="border-radius:10px;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;display:block;-webkit-user-select:none;width:300px;user-select:none;-webkit-user-modify:read-only;user-modify:read-only;overflow:hidden;text-decoration:none;" class="lp-rich-link" rel="nofollow" href="https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-review" dir="ltr" role="button" draggable="false" width="300"><table style="table-layout:fixed;border-collapse:collapse;width:300px;background-color:#E9E9EB;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="lp-rich-link-emailBaseTable" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="300"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td vertical-align="center" align="center" class=""><span id="cid:4CDE7093-998E-43BD-A2D2-922EA040505B"><24ab2184-c024-44c5-81cc-4bc14851b965_1762x1173.jpeg></span></td></tr><tr class=""><td vertical-align="center" class=""><table bgcolor="#E9E9EB" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="300" style="font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;table-layout:fixed;background-color:rgba(233, 233, 235, 1);" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td style="padding:8px 0px 8px 0px;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStackItem"><div style="max-width:100%;margin:0px 16px 0px 16px;overflow:hidden;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:500;font-size:12px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-topCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-review" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false" class=""><font style="" class="">The rise and fall of peer review</font></a></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:400;font-size:11px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-bottomCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-review" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false" class=""><font color="#A2A2A9" style="color: rgba(60, 60, 67, 0.6);" class="">experimentalhistory.substack.com</font></a></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></a></div></div><div style="display: block;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="display: block;" class="">No problems that can’t be fixed?</div><div style="display: block;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="display: block;" class="">Regards,</div><div style="display: block;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="display: block;" class="">Dan</div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">extropy-chat mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" class="">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a><br class="">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>