I guess it is about personal choices still.
To me, education is about learning how to learn, and I guess hopefully stumbling onto a path to a career you can pursue through secondary education. Once we progress toward adulthood (or completion of brain development) then we can make a living and are equipped to learn what we want for a better (more lucrative? More personal connection? More creative?) life. Or not.
Right now, it unfortunately seems that the whole world is actively burning anything good we have in order to be a cog in the machine that makes the disgustingly wealthy even more so. Ai is in the hands of the rich. Where does that leave us?
If anyone thinks that menial tasks being handled by ai (that is controlled by the insane) will mean we simply have more time to do the things we want to do, well they might be right. Unfortunately, it will leave us without the means to afford a decent lifestyle or participate in many of those fulfilling activities.
After rumination, I like to then progress to engaging my intellect and deciding what I am going to do about it. I am going to study the enemy/ally and constantly look for opportunities. Right now, I am learning how to use the tool to scale up the business without having to scale up the Human Resources investment which is not great I suppose. I preserve my people who could be replaced today with ai and encourage them to constantly be looking for new advancements and opportunities we can capitalize on together.
For now, I choose to learn regardless because of what I know it does for our brains, responsibility to those I charge myself to care for, and I know the value of having a purpose (and the shit hole that swallows someone when they don’t have one).
I choose to not let the sky fall on me and to take control of what I can. For what that will be worth in the future? Probably not much but enough to get me by while others look to do nothing and complain at their results
Idealistically. If only schools were taught in that way.
Actively and happily it seems. It is quite nihilistic, but driven by hedonism of a sort. I think it leaves us broken - because unless we are truly able to go off-grid and survive, society will collapse around us.
It is those menial tasks, those entry level positions that help us learn for more, while paying a little along the way. Imagine a coder who has to be better than the AI - they first have to learn all the basics and then all the advanced, and then the expert levels, before they can start adding value. They will be 50 before they get their first job, and a year later, they will be obsolete anyway.
I feel like the sky is falling on me at the moment perhaps. Fighting a losing battle. Still fighting though I guess.