This fall, prospective students and parents should be looking at university recruitment materials with one question in mind: what exactly is a college education worth in the AGI era? https://hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/its-later-than-you-think
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It’s that the article assumes that professors are an end product. Like, they are the product that Universities sell
But professors are learning too
The value proposition of a University isn’t a fount of knowledge
To learning from research and peer collaboration
So universities represent a continuum of learning methods, and AGI will be a critical component in supporting that (directly and indirectly)
It discounts the "cognitive community" where a bunch of people are getting together to learn, grow, and explore, also aided by AI
Natural to defend the expertise hierarchy
As you go up the scale of expertise and intelligence, it's harder and harder to definitively say "Who's smarter?" Was Albert Einstein smarter than the most prominent biologist of his day?
(one of my views is that the secondary effects of AI will be more important than the primary effects)