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And how many aqueducts lead to your dwelling today?

I live someplace with abundant groundwater so my water comes from a well less than a mile away. But millions of people have aqueducts leading to their city providing a significant portion of their water supply.

And when you need water for drinking or showering do you go to the well to get it?

I'm fairly certain that you do in fact have a duct that moves aqua (water) into your house, bro.

And gravity-feed systems are the best way to move large amounts of water. That's even how nature works, and nature moves much more water than humans do.

You miss the point entirely little bro. Modern water-moving infrastructure is qualitatively different than two thousand years ago. Why would modern education be exempt from a similar transformation?

This is a false dichotomy.

University impact on careers in the 1980s was materially different than now, and that is still "modern education".

Opposing the AI impact on universities is not equivalent to opposing modern water infrastructure, it's more akin to being opposed to a new water pipe material that is shown to improve flow but have adverse health effects.

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