Personally, when I find myself fully aware of acting against my best interest (especially repeatedly), "stupid" doesn't seem to be totally out of place.
I don't find the author's argument, that students who essentially skip learning via LLM could avoid fairly being labeled "stupid", particularly convincing.
Not that I think it to be a particularly useful label, but I don't find awareness of self-sabotage to preclude one from such a label.
This is similar to how I believe the label "smart" alone does not carry much use.
If students' optimization function is getting hired, what happens to the quality of skill and knowledge of grads?
As far as we know there is no direct competitor in learning to doing it repeatedly, in different ways. Now whether a mixture of structured and truly unstructured learning is superior is another discussion.
> Much of what we are supposed to learn in a classroom is irrelevant and some of it is just down right wrong.
I think there is a lot of truth here.
I used to teach chem and I would repeatedly warn students not to cheat (especially the on-line students). I'd explain that they would eventually have to take certification tests (for nursing) where they COULDN'T cheat.
So, if they cheated, they'd just waste time and $$$$.
I don't think my warnings helped and I think the reason is related to your statement. The cheaters are basically thinking, "I just have to jump through this dumb hoop. It's not important. I'll figure out the important stuff when the time comes."
I mean, I understand that line of thought, but they're making their decision to cheat based on the assumption that they can learn chem on their own and at a much later date. I'm sure most of them lost a lot of time and money.
I don't find the author's argument, that students who essentially skip learning via LLM could avoid fairly being labeled "stupid", particularly convincing.
Not that I think it to be a particularly useful label, but I don't find awareness of self-sabotage to preclude one from such a label.
This is similar to how I believe the label "smart" alone does not carry much use.