With the general inaccessibility of college in the US (with AGI, they’re basically pay to play), would Chess or Go be a good qualifier for job mental acuity?

Both can be monitored on the spot and certified by third-party associations.

  • BassTurd@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    What you’re saying is if someone got good at chess then they would be better suited to succeed in college. There may be merit to that to some degree, but in the end, that person would be going to college to get a better education, and may have a leg up on other less analytical people. OP is suggesting replacing college with things like Chess or Go. College also teaches specifically in different fields. Knowing how to play Chess doesn’t teach a person about seg faults, stack overflows, or computer architecture. A college can if that’s the field a person decides to pursue.

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      5 days ago

      Oh yeah, I see that. I read this as college admission, not the four year degree itself. In that case, no I don’t really think it could be replaced.