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Comment · 1 month ago
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Comment · 1 month ago
Depends on what we mean by critical thinking, as I said it is an abused term. Some just use it as a substitute to mean "thinking for yourself" when that is not something taught in a lesson but either becomes a habit or doesn't. But even then we all use arguments from authority and present it as our own because you are not realistically going to think about everything from first principles all the time.
I agree that districts do have a lot of pressure on teachers to keep pushing up test scores which leads them to being gamed either by teachers or children no matter the tools available: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
Comment · 1 month ago
Most teachers now use AI for lesson planning (talk to any teacher). Some even for marking when they can.
Children probably use more critical thinking in the playground and interacting with other children than in class, because classwork is mostly slop anyway.
LLMs are not going to one shot answers in Minecraft through the chat UI. Possibly a more effective resource than checkbox activities at teaching "critical thinking" (abused term in education).
Comment · 1 month ago
Me: "Most research that gets funded in maths is useless"
You: "We use maths everyday"
Do you see how our statements do not contradict each other?
Comment · 1 month ago
Also something I didn't know. We learn something new everyday and I certainly didn't study CS or anything. Also describes most of the research that gets funded these days.
In all seriousness, I don't think even AI hallucinates this much. We should genuinely be concerned for society.
Comment · 1 month ago
No fucking way, I didn't realise. I was definitely talking about calculus.
Comment · 1 month ago
What if I told you that... Most math research was useless anyway. AI is going to expose a lot of grift.
Comment · 1 month ago
Oh you mean that bad thing where you pay people for a skill?