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[-] Eggyhead@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago

As a teacher of children I’m beginning to think maybe it actually would be better if fancy LLMs just took my job.

[-] _danny@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I'm actually beginning to believe the setting for Ready Player One. In the next ten years it might just be cheaper and safer for children to be given a nice VR headset and attend school fully virtually, hell they might actually get a better education since it'll be easier to mute misbehaving children.

Not exactly going to work for kids under 12 or so, and there's probably lots of eye strain associated with being in a VR headset for hours upon hours, but hey at least the risk of being shot will be lower since there's clearly no way in hell that we will get laws to control weapons.

[-] ashok36@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You assume that the primary purpose of public schools is to educate children. It's not. It's free daycare so both parents can go to work and contribute to gdp while barely treading water even with two incomes.

[-] _danny@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That was the primary reason I mentioned the whole age thing. Teenagers really don't need a babysitter.

[-] Eggyhead@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

You’d have to fundamentally change how education is presented first in order to get 15-18 year olds to put on a headset for most of the day without “losing connection”, having “audio issues”, dogs “chewing cables”, or homework “getting corrupted”, etc.

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