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Moostache

(11,259 posts)
3. A fundamental misunderstanding and misrepresentation of "education" is at the heart of this all...
Tue May 5, 2026, 12:43 PM
Yesterday

Education is a process, an experience, a way of training mind and body to new things that it cannot or has not previously been able to do. The goal of a college degree is not grades or GPA or the easy way to 'finish' an assignment without investing time into it - the true currency of education is TIME. Spending time - through reading, thinking, practicing, experiencing and DOING THINGS - are the cornerstones of education.

If the only reason one attends college is to get a piece of paper that declares them learned in a subject, then that is a waste of time and money and ultimately useless for self-improvement, skills-attainment or becoming actual experts in a given field. People USED to know this inherently and respected the experts for the time and effort it took to attain such status and standing. Not any more...

Now, the GOP and its race to the bottom - from Reagan to Bush I to Bush II to Palin to Fox News to Trump - has successfully fooled people into doubting expertise, denigrating effort and practice required to become a real expert and set fire to the whole world at the same time.

If you use AI instead of train your mind, you have failed at education and university and denigrated yourself as an opportunistic whore. Your soul's price was easily obtained, bought and paid for. Only those who truly understand the purpose of education can actually benefit themselves AND society with the fruits of such labor. Believing that AI or anything else external to the mind and self will "do it for us" and "make life easier" does not understand the first thing about why such thinking is a prison and that they are voluntarily locking themselves into it.

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Wouldn't the lack of expertise b/c of AI come out no_hypocrisy Yesterday #1
Wow... appmanga Yesterday #2
The AI companies tell users that having any sort of basic, vague idea is all that matters to make what highplainsdem Yesterday #6
Attribution for AI exboyfil Yesterday #7
Best not to use it at all. There's already plenty of evidence it both dumbs users down and skews their highplainsdem Yesterday #10
A fundamental misunderstanding and misrepresentation of "education" is at the heart of this all... Moostache Yesterday #3
Yes, the purpose of education is self-enrichment. It's a growth process, an expansion of your personal scope of being. patphil Yesterday #11
That's not learning by doing it's watching TV. Klarkashton Yesterday #4
AI is moronic at times exboyfil Yesterday #5
Wow...when I was in college, I'd have a 'big sploosh of ideas" and then, Bettie Yesterday #8
Using AI sure beats doing hard, time consuming work. It allows you to produce results with very little thought at all! patphil Yesterday #9
I just started using AI crud Yesterday #12
I wouldn't bet on generative AI not going away. Using it has been fairly cheap or even free because highplainsdem Yesterday #14
Excellent post..... anciano Yesterday #16
Back in the dark days before the advent of the World Wide Web EYESORE 9001 Yesterday #13
Cheating. DiverDave Yesterday #15
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