MiguelX413

That's a decline in academic standards of pre-tertiary education, we're talking about higher education, those things aren't necessarily correlated.

This, if one just wanted to get a job, they should go to trade school. There's no point in bastardizing academia into trade school when trade school already exists.

Argentina had its own version of Pinochet?

No, just to bypass length limits.

Yeah, what does it matter that the best healthcare, only available to the globally rich, American or not, is in the US? A much better measurement of a given country's healthcare system in more meaningful terms is average outcomes of the whole population, like life expecrsncy, child mortality rates, etc.

Why would AI be part of that process?

I think their existence is a problem

Like all technology, it's not question about it itself but rather how it's used.

That's absolutely not the point of higher education, don't drag it down to the level of industry please.

> CS wasn't supposed to be a programming boot camp anyway, it is at its heart an academic degree much close to pure mathematics than programming. Maybe it should go back to that? Maybe college never should have been for everyone?

That's absolutely what I think, since even before the proliferation of LLMs.

> I can think of no example in history of the entire world deciding to just forsake the development of a technology because it seemed like it could prove to be too dangerous. The same psychological logic always applies.

I wish they did before too.

I'd be ok with killing Hitler.

Wonderful way to put it.