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WotC Officially Confirms Takhisis and Tiamat Are The Same
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<blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 8862426" data-attributes="member: 6988941"><p>It is extremely troubling in the short to medium term. In the long term breaking education from its essay addiction (whether because school gives up on them as unpoliceable or because AI assisted essay writing becomes the norm and the focus we train the humans for in that partnership becomes less on style and basic research and more on argument and higher level analysis) opens a lot of exciting opportunities to spend time learning more valuable things. Which is not to be too utopian about it; education involves lots of not very dynamic or flexible institutions and many not very dynamic or flexible people and interest groups, and the inevitable drive to try to hold on to the essay-centric status quo in a world where students can have a computer write a better essay than them in a matter of minutes will almost certainly lead to a generation or two of people with horribly compromised educations.</p><p></p><p>But eventually I think it's for the best. I do appreciate the value of academic writing as an intellectual exercise, and that the skills it develops partially spill into developing other forms of expression, but it is an intellectual exercise that gobbles up an obscene amount of students' educational time. And the reason for the degree of focus often boils down problematically to "oh you need to practice this school skill for the next phase of your education", and this whether or not the student intends to actually pursue that next phase.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Benjamin Olson, post: 8862426, member: 6988941"] It is extremely troubling in the short to medium term. In the long term breaking education from its essay addiction (whether because school gives up on them as unpoliceable or because AI assisted essay writing becomes the norm and the focus we train the humans for in that partnership becomes less on style and basic research and more on argument and higher level analysis) opens a lot of exciting opportunities to spend time learning more valuable things. Which is not to be too utopian about it; education involves lots of not very dynamic or flexible institutions and many not very dynamic or flexible people and interest groups, and the inevitable drive to try to hold on to the essay-centric status quo in a world where students can have a computer write a better essay than them in a matter of minutes will almost certainly lead to a generation or two of people with horribly compromised educations. But eventually I think it's for the best. I do appreciate the value of academic writing as an intellectual exercise, and that the skills it develops partially spill into developing other forms of expression, but it is an intellectual exercise that gobbles up an obscene amount of students' educational time. And the reason for the degree of focus often boils down problematically to "oh you need to practice this school skill for the next phase of your education", and this whether or not the student intends to actually pursue that next phase. [/QUOTE]
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