For anyone who is intrigued by the David Foster Wallace commencement speech, his writing is absolutely magisterial. It's often dense and can be difficult to engage with it first, but the man truly was a master of prose.
I’ve certainly seen an uptick in people I know personally utilizing ChatGPT but it does not seem to be nearly as widespread as the media might have you believe. Not sure what’s going on here - the allure of a juicy story?
It used to be an that people complained they didn't learn enough at school and now people are saying they don't care about learning anything from school.
What exactly are the brands hoping to accomplish by spinning up Substacks? Are people actually using the social features of this place? It's hard for me to imagine how American Eagle is going to create value for their shareholders by running a blog.
It's probably similar to how brands frequently had/have blogs in the past, except now it's on substack and can maybe be shared around a bit on the twitter clone that substack has.
Completely agree that students who use Chatgpt are shooting themselves in the foot! And the DFW quotes are great. Will definitely read.
I think exams are one solution but there is value to writing papers. I think the solution is to use watermarking for enforcement which I wrote about here (https://computingandsociety.substack.com/p/how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-chatgpt) but sadly professors are too busy fighting another internecine war about the symbolic politics of AI to think of pragmatic solutions that can work for all without everyone having to agree on everything. Would be curious to hear your take.
Message from boomer world - AI doesn't keep one from thinking and learning. It teaches one how to ask better and better questions. In an overload of information managing to valuable signal is an art.
For anyone who is intrigued by the David Foster Wallace commencement speech, his writing is absolutely magisterial. It's often dense and can be difficult to engage with it first, but the man truly was a master of prose.
Interesting bluesky thread about a statistic from that NY Mag article:
https://bsky.app/profile/aedwardslevy.bsky.social/post/3lolmc2v2hk2c
I’ve certainly seen an uptick in people I know personally utilizing ChatGPT but it does not seem to be nearly as widespread as the media might have you believe. Not sure what’s going on here - the allure of a juicy story?
Good find
It used to be an that people complained they didn't learn enough at school and now people are saying they don't care about learning anything from school.
What exactly are the brands hoping to accomplish by spinning up Substacks? Are people actually using the social features of this place? It's hard for me to imagine how American Eagle is going to create value for their shareholders by running a blog.
It's probably similar to how brands frequently had/have blogs in the past, except now it's on substack and can maybe be shared around a bit on the twitter clone that substack has.
Completely agree that students who use Chatgpt are shooting themselves in the foot! And the DFW quotes are great. Will definitely read.
I think exams are one solution but there is value to writing papers. I think the solution is to use watermarking for enforcement which I wrote about here (https://computingandsociety.substack.com/p/how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-chatgpt) but sadly professors are too busy fighting another internecine war about the symbolic politics of AI to think of pragmatic solutions that can work for all without everyone having to agree on everything. Would be curious to hear your take.
Message from boomer world - AI doesn't keep one from thinking and learning. It teaches one how to ask better and better questions. In an overload of information managing to valuable signal is an art.
"It teaches one how to ask better and better questions."
This is possible but very clearly not the case for most students.
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