Re:There's a Very Good Reason College Students Don't Read An...
by Terr_ on Friday October 25, 2024 @06:53PM
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> Recent ads for Apple Intelligence, an A.I. feature, make the vision plain. In one, the actor Bella Ramsey uses artificial intelligence to cover for the fact they haven’t read the pitch their agent emailed.
I saw that and thought it was actually kind of damning. I mean, the big wealthy giant company makes an advertising campaign for their new product and they tell you it's awesome because it will... help you quickly lie to people while faking doing necessary work at important moments?
Might as well pitch it as a tool for absentee parents so that they can pretend they saw their lonely child's performance in the school play.
Re:There's a Very Good Reason College Students Don't Read An...
by wmf on Friday October 25, 2024 @07:08PM
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Once students graduate, the jobs they most ardently desire are in what they proudly call the “sellout” fields of finance, consulting and tech. ... All in all, it looks as if success follows not from knowledge and skill but from luck, hype and access to the right companies. ... how will any effort in school prepare them for careers in which, apparently, effort is not rewarded?
Absolute garbage. If this professor wants to create a self-perpetuating cycle of aggrieved failure, encouraging students to not do work is certainly the way.
I saw that and thought it was actually kind of damning. I mean, the big wealthy giant company makes an advertising campaign for their new product and they tell you it's awesome because it will... help you quickly lie to people while faking doing necessary work at important moments?
Might as well pitch it as a tool for absentee parents so that they can pretend they saw their lonely child's performance in the school play.
Absolute garbage. If this professor wants to create a self-perpetuating cycle of aggrieved failure, encouraging students to not do work is certainly the way.