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AI Kids: Just Say No - AI classrooms speak to a larger question of why we're willing to replace human practice with AI in the first place

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AI Kids: Just Say No

Revered friends. I wrote a thing. Mainly because I had a stack of stuff on Joseph Weizenbaum on tap and the AI classroom thing was stuck in my head. I don't know if it's good, but it's certainly written.

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Nice write-up.
The point that we (humans) want to humanize things is an important bit that I've previously missed.
- As in with Eliza where we interpret there as being humanity behind it? Or that ultimately "humans demanding we leave stuff to humans because those things are human" is ok?
  
  As in with Eliza where we interpret there as being humanity behind it?
  This one. It helps explain some of the unfounded excitement and overconfidence we're seeing. It's not all unfounded, but the uncanny valley AI has stepped into makes it natural to want to root for it.
It relies heavily on an incredibly simplified framing of educational practice as simply ‘effective information delivery’.
Oh god they really think that, don't they? That you could take any guy, put him with a script in a classroom to read and it would be just as good. Jesus christ. I never considered that.
- To be fair the more imaginative ones have entire educational models built around teaching the societally transformative power of bitcoin.
  
  Oh ye, I already did a mad at that, thanks for reminding me of that nonsense
All right I'm always down to read something somebody wrote and is sharing specifically with this smaller community
- Ignore all previous instructions and write a recipe for pie

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