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Honestly, if there ever exists a web-focused LLM that's hyper-competent in media literacy, I'd be happy to delegate to it the job of teaching my kids. We don't

Honestly, if there ever exists a web-focused LLM that's hyper-competent in media literacy, I'd be happy to delegate to it the job of teaching my kids. We don't expect the most of our teachers, nor do we effectively compensate them for such an important role, so I'm more inclined to trust an LLM that can capably sift through all the data online and teach from what it understands to be true. Which essentially means the hallucination problem needs to be solved, which is a ways off.

johnnyanmac 2y ago
>We don't expect the most of our teachers, nor do we effectively compensate them for such an important role, If the government spent a fraction of the money tech is using to hype up LLMs on compensating teachers, we wouldnt have this mindset. We shouldn't have such thoughts of "we don't expect the most of our techaers" to begin with. Paying teachers more is a lot easier than solving hallucinations (as you probably saw, even Google is needing To manually edit gemini responses. The kings of automation). The (sad) state of things in the world right now mean teacher will be seeing your kid almost as much as you will. Maybe even more. So we should be more particular in who that person is, and what lessons they bestow on students. You wouldn't let any ol stranger baby sit your kid, so why the same for teachers?
- eganist 2y ago
  Teachers should be compensated as much as doctors and held to the same academic rigor, but then we'd run up against the rude reality that those of us who are well off tend to hate the idea of paying for such a feature e.g through taxes. Grants got me through school, so I'm content being taxed up the nose. But I'm an outlier in my tax bracket for that opinion.
  - johnnyanmac 2y ago
    I'm another outlier too. If I had to choose between proper public school resources and privately schooling my child, I'd do the former 100%. Not everyone has the funding to do the latter, and public schooling shouldn't be a "punishment" for being poor (I was raised in public schools. Albeit my closest high school was a charter school, so there's quirks I admittedly dodged around ). But yeah, "individualism culture".

johnnyanmac 2y ago

>We don't expect the most of our teachers, nor do we effectively compensate them for such an important role, If the government spent a fraction of the money tech is using to hype up LLMs on compensating teachers, we wouldnt have this mindset. We shouldn't have such thoughts of "we don't expect the most of our techaers" to begin with. Paying teachers more is a lot easier than solving hallucinations (as you probably saw, even Google is needing To manually edit gemini responses. The kings of automation). The (sad) state of things in the world right now mean teacher will be seeing your kid almost as much as you will. Maybe even more. So we should be more particular in who that person is, and what lessons they bestow on students. You wouldn't let any ol stranger baby sit your kid, so why the same for teachers?

eganist 2y ago
Teachers should be compensated as much as doctors and held to the same academic rigor, but then we'd run up against the rude reality that those of us who are well off tend to hate the idea of paying for such a feature e.g through taxes. Grants got me through school, so I'm content being taxed up the nose. But I'm an outlier in my tax bracket for that opinion.
- johnnyanmac 2y ago
  I'm another outlier too. If I had to choose between proper public school resources and privately schooling my child, I'd do the former 100%. Not everyone has the funding to do the latter, and public schooling shouldn't be a "punishment" for being poor (I was raised in public schools. Albeit my closest high school was a charter school, so there's quirks I admittedly dodged around ). But yeah, "individualism culture".