WTF, NYer. "If we agree that college primarily serves a credentialling process that stamps select young people as worthy of work..." We do not. So much for The New Yorker as bastion of erudite journalism. This is sensationalism, damaging our most vital institution: education.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/fault-lines/will-ai-make-college-obsolete
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> Prior to joining The New Yorker, he was an opinion writer for the New York Times
That explains a lot; sounds like this is a thinly disguised opinion piece and not news or even journalism.
I don't see the point in engaging with opinion pieces (?). They're often enragement-bait that is designed to take attention and energy away from more productive conversations.
@jeffjarvis Is there any historical parallel of a country taking a wrecking ball so thoroughly to itself and all the parts of it that made it strong?
@jeffjarvis This is also a good example of two other rules.
1. Any headline ending in a question mark can be answered with "no."
1b. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
2. People who write and publish under three names are knobs.
@jeffjarvis It is absolutely wild to be a college professor and read these 100% garbage takes about higher education from mainstream media. Their own alma maters should be so ashamed that this is what their students say in public about them. But because they only hire from elite schools, no one realizes that sub-elite schools are all about getting our students so very skillful and knowledgeable that hirers won't discriminate against them. Elite unis do not prioritize effective teaching!
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So edgy 🙄
What's up with all the formerly reputable publications resorting to clickbait melodrama?
I wonder if Jay Kang wrote this entire article with AI, or just most of it...
@jeffjarvis Wow, the New Yorker is indeed truly dead, isn't it? No matter how many times they say AI is seen as more trustworthy than academics, it's still an outrageously stupid lie.
@jeffjarvis One of my college professors said something like "the point of college is to teach you how to be a thoughtful human, the facts you pick up in your classes are just a bonus" and completely changed my outlook on everything since.
@jeffjarvis New Yorker Favorites™
Just when higher education demands defense against a fascist onslaught--and when AI provides new need and opportunity for the humanities--The NYer and its author (Bowdoin '02, Columbia '05) surrender ivy to careerism without making the case for education for its own sake.
@jeffjarvis The people who agree to this are those who didn't learn anything in college and are likely privileged gits to begin with, who have been able to trade on connections and access rather than what they know.
@jeffjarvis Just the headline is so obviously stupid. If ever there was a time for "I can't even," it's this type of AI bullshit.
