Jo Gage on Warpcast

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Have any of y’all tried this?

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@thecurioushermit

I started having it draft self-study curricula for me in late 2022, not long after GPT3 went public. They were good even then, but of course get better with the upgrades and memory features. Starting learning Chinese with it last year, along with a deep dive into Aesthetic Philosophy and the arguments about AI Art (Conclusion: Nobody agrees what art even is, make what you like, but be honest about how ya made it.) I've got a whole university level "degree" plan I had it develop before I decided to actually go back to school and finish my degree 🤣

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fascinating, why did you decide to go back to school given you have an amazing self study curriculum?

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Bucket list item to finish the degree I paused two decades ago! Finally got my life to where I can do what I want - I live off my income as a content creator, and my content is documenting a life devoted to learning and personal spiritual development. Also, tuition is free in my state, and it's *really* nice having that access to research databases for my own personal projects! Totally different experience doing college in my 40s than it was in my late teens and 20s. I can do it all online now if I want, though campus is nearby, so if there's a really interesting on-campus class, I can still take it. I have less attachment to grades, and with the classes being online, I can work on my own schedule, so it's not all that much different from what I was doing before, except I'll have an actual degree.

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that is a pretty compelling set of reasons! If you were in your late teens now would you bother? context for my questions, thinking about my daughter's, who has just started middle school, educational path.

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That would depend on her goals. If she wants to be a doctor or lawyer or any other profession that requires the degree for licensure, then obviously college is the right path for that. But for a lot of other careers, with the tools available to us now, self-directed learning can go a LONG way. Want to build games? Learn to write, to create art in some manner, and to code. One of my own self-study curricula I putter with is a solo game developer track. There are TONS of resources available for free learning, too. A lot from universities. Data analysis skills are hot - that's another one I've got an ongoing curriculum for related to personal interests. There's an entire site dedicated to learning it and entering competitions with real cash prizes to show off and build your skills. More and more of the work humans will do in the future will rely on being able to learn and adapt and come up with new ideas, and those skills aren't learned in college, they're cultivated over time.

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Thank you for this. I wonder if most of the benefits of university (or college) are in fact social ones and having a safe(ish) space to explore adulthood without too much responsibility. Pretty expensive way of doing that perhaps…

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