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How University Students Use Claude

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395 points pseudolus | 2 comments | 09 Apr 25 15:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.602s | source
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ilrwbwrkhv ◴[09 Apr 25 15:57 UTC] No.43633555[source]▶
AI bubble seems close to collapsing. God knows how many billions have been invested and we still don't have an actual use case for AI which is good for humanity.
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boredemployee ◴[09 Apr 25 16:05 UTC] No.43633642[source]▶
I think I understand what you're trying to say.

We certainly improve productivity, but that is not necessarily good for humanity. Could be even worse.

i.e.: my company already expect less time for some tasks given that they _know_ I'll probably use some AI to do tasks. Which means I can humanly handle more context in a given week if the metric is "labour", but you end up with your brain completely melted.

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1. DickingAround ◴[09 Apr 25 16:23 UTC] No.43633863[source]▶
I think the core of the 'improved productivity' question will be ultimately impossible to answer. We would want to know if productivity was improved over the lifetime of a society; perhaps hundreds of years. We will have no clear A/B test from which to draw causal relationships.
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2. AlexandrB ◴[09 Apr 25 16:34 UTC] No.43634040[source]▶
This is exactly right. It also depends on how all the AGI promises shake out. If AGI really does emerge soon, it might not matter anymore whether students have any foundational knowledge. On the other hand, if you still need people to know stuff in the future, we might be creating a generation of citizens incapable of doing the job. That could be catastrophic in the long term.