Imagine it came with dozens of downvotes on every social platform. Certainly all current events channels on YouTube avoid it religiously. I assume they have reason.

I don't think the right is terribly unified on this. A populist with a strong angle might be able to make enough of a movement to push some version of this through. I have trouble imagining this populist figure, but it might resemble a "cross of AI".

This article triggered Gell Mann Amnesia very quickly when it suggested playing cards may have evolved from Mah Jongg tiles. Mah Jongg was invented in the mid 1800s and spread during the Taiping Rebellion. Chinese society has Middle Ages origin gambling cards, but Mah Jongg tiles are very far removed from them.

He uses a custom system called Digital Project. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Project

All pre-secondary schools are designed to control the movements of students. It is one of their fundamental benefits to society.

And yet, I have an unfortunately clear mental picture of the human that did this. In itself, that is a very specific coding style. I don't imagine an LLM would do that. Chat would instead take a couple of the methods from the Symbian codebase and use them where they didn't exist. The God classes would merely be mined for more non-existent functions. The true if block would become a function. And the # lines would have comments on them. Useless comments, but there would be text following every last one of them. Totally different styles.

Depends on the LLM.

I've seen exactly what you describe and worse *, and I've also seen them keep to one style until I got bored of prompting for new features to add to the project.

* one standard test I have is "make a tetris game as a single page web app", and one model started wrong and then suddenly flipped from Tetris in html/js to ML in python.

It definitely flattens your style.

It looked like black magic at first. But then you started to see the signs.

They should have to tell you that. I can see why it's convenient for them not to, but I believe the larger point is far more important.

It's fairly simple in most situations. If it doesn't involve a computer, it's handwritten in class. If it does involve a computer, it's a temporarily offline computer. We have figured out solutions to these problems already.

It may be that offline LLMs will be common in a few years.

That is definitely a potential issue, but so far any text models that run on laptops are tremendously slow. Still, something to look out for.

You forgot “no homework that counts, or a prison- or monastery-like environment where you have no access to any of these technologies for the length of academic term”. No, humans have not ever had a similar problem before, and also some of the solutions to various problems that we have figured out in our past are no longer considered reasonable today.

No homework that counts is essentially a double win.

See the part about “reasonable”. Let’s see how you single-handedly revolutionize school systems worldwide :)