I dunno what the takeaway is here other than the antidote to farming out your brain power to AI is going to be found in human interaction over ideas.

Tutorial system is not everyone's bag, but for me, who will go on a research rabbithole about nearly anything? And who loves nothing more than talking about Big Ideas with smart people?
It was amazing.

1. Nothing on earth improved my writing faster than knowing I would have to read it to my prof
2. Even if AI had been an option in those days, I could never have gotten away with it under those conditions.
That's a GOOD thing

Dr. Condee's pedagogy involved a shit ton of reading + robust discussion, and a 5 page min cited essay every week that I would have to READ OUT LOUD to him at the start of the next class to kick off our discussion.

I don’t think women’s professional ambitions should be limited by how tactfully or gamely they respond to men’s sexual entitlement.

That's a load-bearing "if."

It's possible I've just missed it but I don't think there's been a single person implicated in any of this that I've been surprised by? It's like "oh, that rich piece of shit is even more of a scumbag than I thought? Yeah, that tracks"

“Ok the media got it wrong. Why not release the files?”

“Ok Dems are tied up in this. Why not release the files?”

“Ok it’s a hoax. Why not release the files?”

I'm kind of baffled how the "moderates" have apparently all decided to turn against climate policy at once, just as China reaches green electrostate liftoff mode. I thought these people were all about National Greatness and making Hard Choices