I’m sure it would be less flattering to me than my version, because people never remember these sorts of conversations the same way. If you think that it might not have happened like that, then just treat it as a hypothetical discussion that could have happened and ponder how contemporary Western lower-education systems can make truly transformative, rather than minor tinkering around the edges, use of AGI which preserves all existing compensation/status/prestige/job/political arrangements and which the teachers’ unions and pension plans would not be implacably opposed to.
It’s a good thing to think about if you are trying to gauge what sort of economic or societal changes might happen over the next decade, especially if you are trying to use that as a proxy for ‘is AGI real’, as so many people are. Personally, my conclusion has long been that the economy & society are so rigid that most such arrangements will remain largely intact even if they are dead men walking, and the pace of AI progress is so rapid that you should basically ignore any argument of the form ‘but we still have human teachers, therefore, AGI can’t be real’.
I’m sure it would be less flattering to me than my version, because people never remember these sorts of conversations the same way. If you think that it might not have happened like that, then just treat it as a hypothetical discussion that could have happened and ponder how contemporary Western lower-education systems can make truly transformative, rather than minor tinkering around the edges, use of AGI which preserves all existing compensation/status/prestige/job/political arrangements and which the teachers’ unions and pension plans would not be implacably opposed to.
It’s a good thing to think about if you are trying to gauge what sort of economic or societal changes might happen over the next decade, especially if you are trying to use that as a proxy for ‘is AGI real’, as so many people are. Personally, my conclusion has long been that the economy & society are so rigid that most such arrangements will remain largely intact even if they are dead men walking, and the pace of AI progress is so rapid that you should basically ignore any argument of the form ‘but we still have human teachers, therefore, AGI can’t be real’.