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niemandhier 2 hours ago [-]
Solving the problems is like doing a kata in martial arts:
It’s not the result, it’s the steps you take that change your mind.
That’s what I told students, when I taught physics for several years during my PhD.
Even back then you could look up solution templates for most of the problems: There are only so many educative small problems that first semester students can solve.
On the other hand: No one studies physics just for a degree and money. So maybe that problem is not as present there, as it is elsewhere.
atoav 14 minutes ago [-]
Any society should aim to have the most educated population it can afford to have. Them getting a better earning through it can be a nice side effect of that, but it is a side effect. The main price is that living among educated people beats living among the dumb and uneducated, especially in a democracy.
The US would have no problem affording that education, if it just considered taxing the richest members of its society a reasonable amount, as it did in the past.
rendaw 33 minutes ago [-]
I was wondering what crises this was referring to. It's paywalled, but if the first couple paragraphs are sufficient it sounds like: students using AI and not learning, researchers using AI and feeling like they no longer have value themselves.
Founderarcstone 3 hours ago [-]
It certainly must be an interesting time to be in the academic world as a professor dealing with all these issues.
That’s what I told students, when I taught physics for several years during my PhD.
Even back then you could look up solution templates for most of the problems: There are only so many educative small problems that first semester students can solve.
On the other hand: No one studies physics just for a degree and money. So maybe that problem is not as present there, as it is elsewhere.
The US would have no problem affording that education, if it just considered taxing the richest members of its society a reasonable amount, as it did in the past.