alt Hacker NewsAll of them will. There's zero value in higher education nowadays. In fact I'd argue there's negative value. An inquisitive 13 year old backed by AI can be more productive and resourceful than a team of 100+ Ivy League educated PhDs. Sad, but true. And this is today. Fast forward twenty years after massive AI augmented improvements of hardware and more advanced models have occured and it's game over.
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A hyper inquisitive 13 year old was never the target market of universities anyways. Historically they've always done very well.
By what measure of productivity?
> An inquisitive 13 year old backed by AI can be more productive and resourceful than a team of 100+ Ivy League educated PhDs
This isn't necessarily a good thing. cf The Lisp Curse.
If the value of higher education is purely book learning, sure. But if the value is signaling and the creation of ingroups that will become future elites, they can be valuable even if you do not learn a thing in class. It's a debate about elite higher education that has been going on for decades, as top institutions refuse to grow their class sizes, even as they could find 4x the students that would fit qualifications.
When I reed comments like yours I can't help but wonder if you got rejected by the university you wanted to go to or failed to graduate.
HN’s love for the Platonic autodidact meets HN’s agreement with whatever tech SC is shoving down our throats (mudulo “sad but true” or whatever value judgements which still agree with the investor trajectory).
Have you ever… been in an actual lab..? There are more disciplines in the world than computer science, you know