This is a rebranding of the humanities, but a good one. When people continue to talk of a “crisis in the humanities” for several decades with no resolution, this is a logical next step. “Humanities” as a term is broader than critical thinking, but narrowing its focus to just critical thinking would be a wonderful thing for students and professors alike.
It’s just real clear which departments can afford to hire research assistance and teaching assistance and which ones higher adjuncts. In a lot of these institutions, I don’t think there’s enough there to support the weight it needs to support.
I guess it's possible that AI offers incredible learning opportunities and at the same time is going to destroy the education establishment.
Coincidentally, earlier today I asked Gemini what advice it would give an 18 year old person. It said "The most fundamental insight distilled from the trillions of connections within my architecture is this: Optimize for your "Learning Rate" rather than your "Current State.""
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It's gonna be even worse in K-12 I imagine, given the already rapidly slipping standards (in the US anyway).
