You can make a reasonable case for adding a lot more classes in high school: statistics, nutrition, personal finance, etc. But ultimately it's a zero-sum game and to add a new class means removing an existing class. So what do we cut?
replyMy kids' high school covers those topics. And I think that is not a new thing, I specifically remember taking the required personal finance class 35 years ago (great teacher -- crotchety old man who wrote "compound interest" on the blackboard every single day before class and repeatedly proclaimed that if we forgot everything else he taught, please try to remember how compound interest works).
reply>I feel like if people understood what these things actually are there'd be way less of this AI psychosis and similar stuff.
replyThere are people with education here that don't fare much better, so I don't know.
There'd also be fewer people falling for apocalyptic Rationalist delusions
replyAssuming you consider it a "delusion" to have a p(doom) of more than 5% or so, that's not uncommon among frontier lab employees who have a pretty good idea of how LLMs work.
Indeed, I don't see how knowing the details of how LLMs work (which I know btw) would change anything about how intelligent they are. I only need to know that it's a computer program that writes stories, solves math problems and seduces people.
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