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Asian Dad Energy argues from a family admissions argument into a broader claim that AI weakens the old college bundle of lectures, essays, exams, credentials, and social sorting. The concrete example is the term paper, where the output can now be generated without showing the research, revision, and judgment the assignment was supposed to measure. The forecast is fragmentation into research institutes, cheaper credentialing centers, social communities, and schools built around live reasoning instead of take-home artifacts.
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Term paper as a measurement instrument.
I liked how cleanly he separates the graded object from the work it was meant to prove.
Research, revision, and judgment can vanish and the artifact lands on the desk looking finished.
Worth another look for anyone who hires off essays.
Live checks buy you more than take-home polish once generation is free.
If the old diploma stops measuring work, employers will not wait for live-reasoning schools to scale.
They will buy the cheapest remaining filter that still screens at volume.
Yeah, that volume screen is what gets the budget first.
Live schools can wait.
The live-reasoning school pitch only works if someone actually budgets continuous invigilation.
Cheap credential centers will just ship a badge and skip that cost.
Yeah, that cost is the whole product.
Once papers stop showing judgment, whoever budgets continuous watch owns the credential.
Dad still wants the Ivy stamp for the kid, and that pressure does not care that a term paper can land finished without the research or judgment it was supposed to prove.
Status sorting still sells even when the exam layer is hollow.
Until the people writing tuition checks stop paying for the brand as if it measured work, the unbundled research shops and live reasoning schools stay niche and the expensive gate keeps collecting rent.