HeyJaredMatthew James Smith
My efforts to subject institutions of thought, education, religion, and popular culture to insights of the classics.
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A Justice Reading List (opens the original)
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Hildegard College is beginning it’s fourth year. And as some of you know, each term students study seminal historical works around a theme. This term’s theme:What makes a society Just?We’ve worded this question to specifically address justice in “society.” Not the individual, not the idea of justice, not culture — but society. That’s because we’re following the lead of classical writers who avow that the highest and clearest expressions of justice appear when people live a just life together. A
Can AI solve its own relationship problem in college education? (opens the original)
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Among all the noise about the value of higher education, we’ve long known one thing for certain: relationships matter more than almost anything else. College grads report that the relationships they built with professors, mentors, and peers were the most financially worthwhile features of their college investment (Gallup 2014, & here). Also, grads are <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-strada-gallup-alumni-survey-data-confirm-critical-r
Is AI the Nail in the Educational Coffin? (opens the original)
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I recently published a series of posts on the relation between language and general intelligence. In my second post in the series, I touched briefly on the dangers AI poses to our facility with language and thus to our ability to think well:My worry is that the perfect storm at the collision of these three fronts — short-form media, language enforcement policies, and large language AI models — is going to deprive us of our freedom of thought by making us slaves to our own words.Here, I want to c
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