François CholletVerified account

Used to be... but now universities have safe spaces and directed discussions to avoid "triggers." Apparently learning cannot be done outside your comfort zone.

In the best of scenario where the family structure takes care of the necessary molding process to preserve what’s good and cherished in a society.

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." (Probably Plutarch, but commonly misattributed to William Butler Yeats these days). https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/28/mind-fire/ …

Should be.

How does this jive with the fact.. that modern AI systems are so expensive to maintain that only a handful of companies are doing it at all .. ? Most of the planet is not even able to start truly leveraging this stuff without certain corporate access via getting hired in

Modern education is a compromise between what you described and preparing students for being valuable in labour market. Economics needs people to start producing value as soon as possible. But the more people know how to learn the better expertise they have(more value).Compromise

well-said. just want to add that even a strong, good attitude may not be enough to cope with an eternity of updates which is very much a feature of the present. education operates with what is considered valid at the moment, and this can get outdated soon after. understandably

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