Comment by yellowapple
6 days ago
> but the tools are pretty good. I encourage you to give them a try.
I have given them a try and can confirm the exact opposite. Plenty of others have given them tries and have confirmed the exact opposite.
Regardless, the “better for a hundred guilty men to go free than for one innocent man to hang” principle applies here.
No it doesn't.
This is armchair philosophy when pragmatism and problem solving serve better.
Fundamentals - Teaching is expensive, and we don't have enough teachers.
Verifying if someone has the skills is difficult.
Given the shortage of teachers, and the difficulty of verification, we ways to bridge the gap.
The first step is always going to be to spend more on education, especially in underserved areas.
The new options we have with LLMs is to increase the rate of testing, and test out the benefits of low stakes testing at scale.
> This is armchair philosophy when pragmatism and problem solving serve better.
Punishing innocent people out of negligence is not pragmatism, and refusing to tolerate such punishment is not armchair philosophy.