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Pill Pod 104 - AI & the New Crisis of Humanities Education

PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

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I'm a Logician and I'd Like to Be a Creative Writing Major

Lee: I think in a sense if I'm believing in the technology of writing there's something about that form of self-expression and about basic things like being able to draw analogies. He says we have decided culturally for whatever reason a bunch of contingent reasons poetic language we don't need it. We're just evaluating your arguments or evaluating the content of your arguments but never the actual words, he says. Lee thinks education needs to go back to being elitist because people are wasting their time reading Shakespeare when they could be doing more productive work with their lives. The way concepts are used is like kind of there's a standardization of it so I don't know if that means it

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