I appreciate how many people have defended this statement as 'clear and straightforward' by providing a way clearer and very straightforward summary of it with 1/3 the word count...
> competent individuals held contingent attitudes and endorsed cynicism only if it was warranted in a given sociocultural environment.
The paper doesn't speculate on how many cultural environments cynicism is warranted. Is it statistically signficantly different from unconditionally embraced cynicism!?
The world is changing, and children should change with it. Learn and understand technology, and the benefits of where modern machine learning is taking us.
But you cannot unironically think we can substitute fundamental skills like essay writing and critical thinking for a degree in 'prompt engineering'?
> But you cannot unironically think we can substitute fundamental skills like essay writing and critical thinking for a degree in 'prompt engineering'?
Personally, I don't think that. However, I also think it's logical and good for a child to consider the task at hand and select the most efficient tool available.
I am not this girl's parent, and I'm not sure how I would have handled the situation if I was. However, I worry that simply taking away her phone may have been counterproductive. I would have erred toward some sort of open conversation about the purpose of the assignment and what she is hoping to learn.
I don't know what the best practice is. I'm not a parent yet but I'm studying to be an elementary school teacher, so these sorts of questions are very much on my mind.
Essay writing has already become an old world archaic skill in my mind, like a seamstress or blacksmith. People still produce clothing and metal tools, but with 1000x fewer labor hours for the same amount of output and the process looks completely different. Even most of my personal messages get LLMed if they need to be very long or have to explain something complicated.
Critical thinking is still a skill, but even there GPT-4 is great at giving suggestions and ideas when you're not sure what to do. I got into a long recurring argument with extended family members at an event last month. I pulled out my laptop and dropped in everyone's complaints into GPT and asked the best way to move forward. An argument that normally would have gone on for hours was over in 20 minutes, and we actually felt a sense of mutual understanding for once.
20 people is very low, presumably becuase the goal of the study was sleep effects, and they were using sleep labs, so I'd say that budget was a big issue here.
No doubt they wanted to maximise sample size, which is why they used the same 20 individuals for both the test and control groups.
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