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Turkish student creates custom AI device for cheating university exam, gets arrested
(arstechnica.com)
this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2024
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Are we going to completely ignore the absolute insanity of arresting someone for cheating on an exam.
At the same time we'll ignore that the exam is high-stakes enough to drive people to desperate measures to game it.
The whole process of manufactured selection in a society is dystopian and sociological horror, if ragingly common throughout the industrialized world.
What's the solution? Gommunism?
Now that you mention it (checking Wikipedia) Turkey is the country for whom Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is president, one of the most notorious autocrats in the world (to whom the former President of the United States is a huge fan and wants to emulate). So yes, a regime change to something way more democratic with proper social safety nets would certainly be helpful.
I can't speak with regards to other communists, but to this communist, the notion of post-scarcity communism in which everyone is comfortably homed, fed, educated and informed is regarded as a remote ideal that will require addressing bunches of problems to achieve.
That said, Turkey within its own history has done better than it is doing today. I suspect Erdoğan (and the killer test for which it's a major crime to cheat on) is a symptom rather than a cause.
How about getting more professors on board and making sure everyone can study?
You could hire a hundred times as many grad students into the tenure track but that still wouldn’t stop people from competing to study with the best ones.
Have you attended university?
Yesterday was my convocation day. So yes!