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53 sats \ 3 replies \ @SimpleStacker OP 23h \ parent \ on: Should universities embrace or crack down on student AI usage? AskSN
I think higher education has always been mid-tier in terms of technology catch up. We're slower than most tech companies, but we're faster than some of the legacy dinosaur companies, and of course faster than government agencies
I agree with that, but it's going to be hard for professors and the bureaucracy to keep up, which will lead to students receiving obsolete training that's not desired by employers.
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Something that bugs me is whether colleges should educate kids to do useless work that is nevertheless compensated well by the market because of government distortions. The formerly well paid DEI consultants are an example. But also things like training kids to do political advocacy which is mostly about fighting over surplus rather than creating surplus.
As a well known econ professor likes to say, "do you create surplus or do you just move it around?"
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You could probably include a lot of the scammy shit MBAs come up with.
It’s a good question. My typical mode is that we should respond to the world we live in rather than the one we’d like to live in.
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