Like oil, intelligence comes as a crude product and needs to be refined.
If students, instead of learning, churn out AI generated pablum, that’s not the same product at all.

March 12, 2026 - 20:56 UTC

2
0
7
The worst danger is when you see a perfect essay, or a spectacular piece of art, and your heart misgives you and you fold your hands.
1
0
3
A sort of Salieri syndrome.
0
0
1
It's worse than that. The product of students was never the point. The learning process that comes from wrestling work the material, understanding the question, planning a structure, composing sentences and paragraphs...

They're not going to learn that. We will have a generation of illiterates.
2
0
7
True story. A middle-aged friend of mine sent an email to her new 20-something boss. It was a few paragraphs.

The boss said, "If you're going to use AI to write your emails, you need to remove the dots".

My friend was mystified. She hadn't used AI.

The "Dots" were the punctuation.

Punctuation.
1
0
0
Maybe people will evolve (devolve?) to think in a series of icons.
1
0
2