Truer words have never been spoken. There's not much intelligence and lots of artificial
Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..
if we were all required to play pro level sports to get a high paying job, surely doping would be sky high.
not everyone "loves learning" and that's okay.
what causes the problem is needing a degree, but not having a desire to develop "academically".
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You're damn right I use commas incorrectly. That's how you know this wasn't written, by AI
#academicsky
it seems elitist to say something like "not everyone should go to university".
but honestly, the high numbers of quasi-academics graduating every year who only go to university to boost their earning prospects is the reason why everyone writes their essays using ChatGPT
#academicsky
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We don’t expect most young people to become semi-pro athletes, ranked chess players, or classically trained musicians.
so this expectation to complete a degree that was traditionally the first step toward an academic career seems a little odd.
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again, not having an interest in becoming "academically trained" is not a problem in and of itself.
but it doesn't surprise me that we expect young people who get a degree for its ROI to behave like aspiring academics and they don't give a shit.
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been seeing a lot of hand-wringing about how university students are not developing the skills to succeed in their academic pursuits thanks to AI.
"what happened to the love of learning!?"
but should everyone "love" the specific flavor of learning that universities provide?
no.
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