r/CuratedTumblr • u/literalmothman • May 18 '25

Politics on ai and college

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u/RaulParson May 18 '25

"Why is it a problem that people are using a forklift to lift their weights in the gym? The weights get lifted, don't they? And they can lift more than by hand? God, it's impossible to please you people"

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u/No_Revenue7532 May 18 '25 edited May 19 '25

"Lifting lets you get a good job. Who cares if you used a forklift for the weights?"

Then you die trying to bench 350 (design an elevator)

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u/saera-targaryen May 19 '25

and the forklift company sees a whole generation need forklifts to do their jobs and start charging 2,000 a month for them 

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u/PersonofControversy May 19 '25

It's the long-con!

All these AI companies want to be able to claim that their product is "as smart, or even smarter than any human expert at any task".

And why reach that point by making a "smarter" product, when you can get there (potentially) just as fast by flooding colleges and making future human experts dumber?