In regards to being able to read “the same thing” as other people; I would of course agree this is one benefit of the current system. Any novel system will have downsides, this is a downside for sure. I think the upsides are far more significant than this one downside at least. Generally we don’t mind tutors or educational YouTube courses that are made to be particularly useful for small groups of people, even though these things do decrease the amount of standardization.
we don’t have a great track record of using technology like this wisely and not overusing it
Agreed. With great power comes great responsibility, and often we don’t use that responsibility that well. But two things: 1) The upsides are really significant. If “being really good” at teaching people generic information is too powerful to be scary, that doesn’t leave us much hope for other tech advancements. 2) Even if it comes out to be net-negative, it could be useful to investigate further (like investigating if it is net-negative).
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In regards to being able to read “the same thing” as other people; I would of course agree this is one benefit of the current system. Any novel system will have downsides, this is a downside for sure. I think the upsides are far more significant than this one downside at least. Generally we don’t mind tutors or educational YouTube courses that are made to be particularly useful for small groups of people, even though these things do decrease the amount of standardization.
Agreed. With great power comes great responsibility, and often we don’t use that responsibility that well. But two things:
1) The upsides are really significant. If “being really good” at teaching people generic information is too powerful to be scary, that doesn’t leave us much hope for other tech advancements.
2) Even if it comes out to be net-negative, it could be useful to investigate further (like investigating if it is net-negative).