Will Chow

Marc Andreesen just tweeted this rant from a teacher from reddit of knowing a student cheated on an essay with no proof. Is this the battle of AI cheaters an AI screeners? Cheating can be a despicable thing and only get you ahead in the short term - In the long term, your actual skills you've developed will be put to the test by reality, so if you didn't cultivate those or you get caught, it's bad news. At the same time, I heard the story of Angela Duckworth, from her book, who turned in an essay for school and every teacher except her art teacher thought she cheated on it because it was far above her ability, and it was her art teacher that she always remembers dearly because she actually wrote the essay. Ultimately, there will be a bit of an arms raise going on with a bit of tragic false negatives and false positives. Ultimately, I don't think AI's going to solve everything - I've encountered some terrible cheaters in school when I was a kid, including this girl named Aisha, and I always wondered how far they will get in life - ultimately, AI's not going to let you cruise through life, you're still going to have to put in the hard work in most situations. As Charlie Munger says, those who are successful deserve it; the world isn't a crazy enough place to constantly reward undeserving people.

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