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0 pointsirishcoffee1d ago0 comments

> Basically, just like high-quality and more education tends to make better humans, on average

Much like these models seem to be plateauing, I think there is a cap to the whole “more education makes better humans” and can’t be more apparent than in the US congress and the boatload of C-Suites not actually being very good humans.

What do I know though?

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ninjagoo1d ago

> can’t be more apparent than in the US congress and the boatload of C-Suites not actually being very good humans.

Sadly, education does not correct psychopathic traits, which might be overrepresented in c-suites, and selected for in politicians.

It might be critical for humanity to identify and edit out these traits in ai, while we can.

irishcoffeeOP3h ago

Seems to me the venn diagram of "congress and c-suites" vs "educated people" would have one circle wholly inside the other.

I know people without a college education that would give you the shirt off their back, and educated people that rewrite wills while their parents are on their deathbed.

What we call education today is a problem, and one need look no further than the massive amount of debt we saddle on kids. For what? So they can pay for privilege of being told what books to read, what topics to write about, and a rubber stamp? I didn't learn a _thing_ in college that I haven't learned better either at $dayjob, or from reading.

Most of my math profs. didn't speak english well, and none of the TAs did. Any math I've since forgotten from college was self-taught. Calc i/ii/iii, diffew, linear, stat.

College/education lost the plot. The sooner we admit it, the sooner we can fix it.

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