David Kipping

We are essentially the only, we may be the way the universe is conscious, right?

We are the way the universe is self-aware.

Yeah.

And so it's kind of wild that we live during the period where this is all happening.

Yes.

You could have been born any one of the hundreds of thousands, million years humans have been on this planet.

You could have been born at any point in human history.

And we all happen to be, all of us listening, happen to be born at the time that humanity is going through this growing pains of figuring out probably the most deep, provocative problem we're ever going to face as a civilization.

Yes.

And that is wild.

And if anything, that pushes me towards the simulation hypothesis, right?

Because if you were going to study a period, this would be probably one of the most interesting periods that you'd want to study.

As a teacher, as a professor, it's a nightmare, right?

Because in the classroom, students are all using it.

There's been a trend we've noticed that students who take labs, so that's like practical experiments in the laboratory, their scores are always crappy, but then all their other exams and everything else they're doing, the homework assignments, they're all great.

And so it seems like that has flipped.

It used to always be kind of the other way around.

So it seems like whenever you have to do something where you don't have access to chat GPT, suddenly you're doing worse than you used to because we're getting already hooked on it.

We're already so dependent on it that the students are just using this as a crutch to get through their studies.

So what are we even doing anymore as professors?