AI, Teaching, and "Our Willingness to Give Bullshit a Pass"
https://dailynous.com/2023/01/05/ai-teaching-and-our-willingness-to-give-bullshit-a-pass/
The first time I heard this argument was from these guys:
https://www.audible.com/pd/Pill-Pod-104-AI-the-New-Crisis-of-Humanities-Education-Podcast/B0BPQ77Z8P
My phrasing of the idea being that tools like ChatGPT are analogous to
calculators, allowing the computer to do what it's good at and freeing
humans up to do what we're good at. Why require students to learn
bullshit rhetorical styling when we can teach them to think about the
*substance* ... a lesson many of us learned from Knuth's TeX a long
time ago. The trick is that tools like ChatGPT are built around the
bullshit-generation use case. What we need are tools built around the
bullshit-detection use case.
and is the introduction of GPTZero (and it's ilk) represent closing the
loop in an "antagonistic" pair to hone that BS generator even faster?
With branch prediction, we could implant a little device just under
the eardrum that listened to someone's speech acts for a tiny
fraction, predict where it was going, and call bullshit or "pay
attention" for some interval. The bullshitters' rhetoric would never
even reach your audio perception devices. ... like trigger warnings
for all of us sensitive snowflakes who can't bear to look on images of
Mohammed
<https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2023/01/05/hamline-university-assailed-for-firing-professor-who-showed-images-of-muhammads-face/>.
With a nod to our resident trans/post-humanist(s), our perceptual
circuits *already* select for what they have been trained to
see/hear/smell/taste/feel some things more/better/easier/differently
than others. So jacking that up with pass-through AR technology is
totally "obvious"... and therefore a "good idea"?
Those of us who've kissed the Blarney Stone, unfortunately, would
spend our lives talking to brick walls.
But with things developing as they are, the brick walls would be capable
of a much more interesting dialogue, perhaps, than people (though given
nay will be post/trans-humans, WTF?). A wall of (otherwise) bricked
smart-devices programmed just to be contrarian with your syntax and
logic constructions?
I think this is probably where we are headed:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/With_Folded_Hands
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