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“Cheaters Gonna Cheat Cheat Cheat Cheat Cheat” by Zvi
Cheaters. Kids these days, everyone says, are all a bunch of blatant cheaters via AI.
Then again, look at the game we are forcing them to play, and how we grade it.
If you earn your degree largely via AI, that changes two distinct things.
Both learning and signaling are under threat if there is too much blatant cheating.
There is too much cheating going on, too blatantly.
Why is that happening? Because the students are choosing to do it.
Ultimately, this is a preview of what will happen everywhere else as well. It is not a coincidence that AI starts its replacement of work in the places where the work is the most repetitive, useless and fake, but its ubiquitousness will not stay confined there. These are problems and also opportunities we will face everywhere. [...]
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Outline:
(01:22) You Could Take The White Pill, But You Probably Won't
(06:16) Is Our Children Learning
(09:00) Cheaters Never Stop Cheating
(13:27) If You Know You Know
(15:31) The Real Victims Here
(22:14) Taking Note
(23:56) What You Going To Do About It, Punk?
(29:01) How Bad Are Things?
(32:30) The Road to Recovery
(34:17) The Whispering Earring
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First published:
May 9th, 2025
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZDXK6nDrvuFypAgoG/cheaters-gonna-cheat-cheat-cheat-cheat-cheat
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Cheaters. Kids these days, everyone says, are all a bunch of blatant cheaters via AI.
Then again, look at the game we are forcing them to play, and how we grade it.
If you earn your degree largely via AI, that changes two distinct things.
Both learning and signaling are under threat if there is too much blatant cheating.
There is too much cheating going on, too blatantly.
Why is that happening? Because the students are choosing to do it.
Ultimately, this is a preview of what will happen everywhere else as well. It is not a coincidence that AI starts its replacement of work in the places where the work is the most repetitive, useless and fake, but its ubiquitousness will not stay confined there. These are problems and also opportunities we will face everywhere. [...]
---
Outline:
(01:22) You Could Take The White Pill, But You Probably Won't
(06:16) Is Our Children Learning
(09:00) Cheaters Never Stop Cheating
(13:27) If You Know You Know
(15:31) The Real Victims Here
(22:14) Taking Note
(23:56) What You Going To Do About It, Punk?
(29:01) How Bad Are Things?
(32:30) The Road to Recovery
(34:17) The Whispering Earring
---
First published:
May 9th, 2025
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZDXK6nDrvuFypAgoG/cheaters-gonna-cheat-cheat-cheat-cheat-cheat
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
---
Images from the article:
Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.
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