Artificial intelligence is making you genuinely stupid

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard. — JFK’s address on the nation’s space effort, Rice University, 1962 We need difficulty—for achievement and for orientation. Hard things anchor us. They give shape to time, depth to thought, weight to words. The fire is a rite, not a punishment. The university becomes a certification factory when students are rebranded as nothing more than consumers of knowledge or institutional strivers. “University” comes from universitas in the Latin phrase universitas magistrorum et scholarium—a community of teachers and scholars—suggesting that a university is a whole, a totality where minds were formed through exposure to the vast and contradictory totality of thought. Now, it is a checkpoint in the logistics chain of career advancement, where the degree matters more than the metamorphosis. The student is no longer a person being transformed by learning, she becomes a project t

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