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Kaia@kaia@pleroma.soykaf.com (2026-10-17 17:35:57)
either less people study at uni going forward or we need to invent a better tier of education. it cant be that over 50% reach university degree.
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lain@lain@lain.com (2026-10-17 17:55:51)
@kaia i think the main issue is that it went from mostly actual education to mostly signaling (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Case_Against_Education if you have too much time). A smart guy with youtube, anna's archive and LLMs can get a better education than anyone at any university, but nobody will recommend it to their kids (for now). same reason why kids with access to anki and a discord server can learn good conversational japanese in a year while most japanese studies graduates can neither read nor speak it.

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lain@lain@lain.com (2026-10-17 17:59:45)
@kaia (although i think that 'normal' school is also already mostly useless, so maybe my thinking is a bit extreme on this)

underproofed ganbold@ganbold (2026-10-17 18:07:09)
this is extremely true from personal experience. despite attending compsci degree, I learnt lot compsci through external resources, practical, etc. nowadays with LLM, people can learn much faster because they could just grasp the concept first instead of iterating and struggling with the "typing the right thing".

weird stuff is that, some things are still requiring "you must complete a degree" to do or be something. makes sense for some cases, but I don't think so for most cases. really annoying case that idk what to do with it either