GPT-4 already seems better at reasoning than most people. It just has an unusual training domain of Internet text.
Job seekers currently in college have no idea what is about to hit them in 3-5 years.
In any other industry where just need an average margin of error close to a human's work and verification is much easier than generating possible outputs, the market will change drastically.
They won't "take 1 hour of time", they try it once or twice and give up.
"Intern of all trades, senior of none", to modernise the cliché.
Planning is different in that it is an essential part of agency. That's what Q* is supposed to add. My guess is that planning is the next type of functionality to be added to GPT. I wouldn't be surprised if they already have a version internally with such functionality, but that they've decided to hold it back for now for reasons such as safety (some may care about the election this year) or simply that the inference costs are so huge they cannot possibly expose it publicly.
Really philosophy seems to be one of the least important subjects right now. Hardly anyone learns about it in school.
If it was so important to success in the wild than it would stand to reason we all work hard at improving our reasoning skills, but very few do.
These did not provide useful life-lessons for me.
(The philosophy A-level I did voluntarily seemed to be 50% "can you find the flaws in this supposed proof of the existence of god?")
Shakespeare is packed with insight.
If I took out a loan on the value of goods being shipped to me, only for my ship to be lost at sea… it would be covered by insurance, and no bank would even consider acting like Shylock (nor have the motivation of being constantly tormented over religion) for such weird collateral, and the bank manager's daughters wouldn't get away with dressing up as lawyers (no chance their arguments would pass the sniff test today given the bar requirement) to argue against their dad… and they wouldn't need to because the collateral would be legally void anyway and rejected by any court.
The ships would also not then suddenly make a final act appearance to apologise for being late, to contradict the previous belief they were lost at sea, because we have radio now.
The closest to "relevant" that I would accept, is the extent to which some of the plots can be remade into e.g. The Lion King or Wyrd Sisters — but even then…
"Methinks, to employeth antiquated tongues doth render naught but confusion, tis less even than naughty, for such conceits doth veil true import with shadows."