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Cognitive_Spoon t1_j15xamu wrote

I have three degrees in education, Ed leadership, Ed systems and Ed k-12 teaching. And I'm entering administrative work.

I don't have to imagine.

Right now the entirety of our conversations are around how to respond to ChatGPT and other AI disruptions.

The two camps boil down to:

  1. We need to prepare students to use AI to improve their workflow for a diminishing number of potential human jobs.

  2. We need to help students advocate for a post-labor mankind that values people regardless of their ability to produce capital.

It's pretty wild.

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Smart-Tomato-4984 t1_j18t3wc wrote

Ideally both.

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Cognitive_Spoon t1_j18te17 wrote

Same thought.

Unfortunately, education discourse gets pulled into the same stupid false binary of debate team logic as most other discourse driven by social media.

Both/and is an absolute rarity in edu Twitter. Everyone wants to sell something, build their brand, especially if it involves dunking on someone else for failing to meet their personal ethics. It's bad.

We need to do both, until the first is no longer possible.

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notthebestchristian t1_j17c5ff wrote

>We need to help students advocate for a post-labor mankind that values people regardless of their ability to produce capital.

Do the people saying that live in the real world or under a rock?

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Smart-Tomato-4984 t1_j18smzc wrote

What else do you suggest? Laying down to die?

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Karcinogene t1_j1w3t46 wrote

I'm planning to hunt the sheep keeping the grass short under the machine civilization's massive solar arrays. As long as their population is sustainably harvested, the machines won't see me as a danger.

Humanity's future might be much like our past.

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notthebestchristian t1_j1bn6hi wrote

To be honest, I don't think we'll be the decision makers on that. We'll be at the mercy of those few with money and resources (and who will also control the AI).

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beachmike t1_j18si56 wrote

There's no evidence of a diminishing number of human jobs. That's merely speculation at this point. If history is any guide, there will be more types of jobs, not less.

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Cognitive_Spoon t1_j18tu84 wrote

History says you're half right.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2022/01/19/understanding-the-impact-of-automation-on-workers-jobs-and-wages/

The problem with this specific kind of automation, is it will surpass human cognitive load ability for writing, design, and discourse.

If you replace human novel problem solving with machines, we don't really have much to provide beyond the ability to make more humans who can do better fiddly manual labor than machines.

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