andrew (in CS teacher mode) @__drewface 2024-01-15
two ideas:
1. We’re still in the 2000s, MIT opencourseware hasn’t yet existed for 1 full generation. Education is a meme whose success takes 1 generation, at least.
2. No need to be depressed, just create new schools w/ ur friends to trigger the golden age faster. 😁
2024-01-15
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An alternate perspective, dependin’ on your spirits
2024-01-15
and of course the golden ages that we have experienced came out of times where knowledge was a chore to get to, and practice itself was costly.
Maybe something to the idea that in these eras, we’re lying to ourselves less. x.com/erikphoel/stat…
But also, let’s take a look at what is silently happening, being mostly unreported, but which every single kid will know in the new education paradigm, when it arrives (which obviously means when you teach it to them)
2024-01-09
youtube is 18yo, wikipedia is 23. the internet is still young, and people are still adapting to what is possible. there are a thousand little signs of things to come, like javelin gold medalists being self taught via yt https://x.com/visakanv/status/1615926172143222784…
Hmm 🤔
So it seems a small number of world-class athletes currently credit YouTube for their success.
Will your kid? Will you? Hard to say, exactly.
2024-01-15
studying youtube game footage is a source of alpha in many games x.com/visakanv/statu…
It’s important to remember that a lot of the great societies we look up to had to be founded by a small group of paradigm-shifting deviants who failed over and over trying what would later appear extremely obvious.
Like scientific society, for instance
2023-12-15
for some idea of where I see this going one day — the Royal Society was just some friends who couldn’t make an institution stick for 13 years.
For me, it’s important that I build something that doesn’t need to scale, so we can have at least 13 years
If you started a “YouTube university” today, that was entirely built upon a foundation of practical + enjoyable open knowledge, focused on educating small groups of existing friends who want to make something of themselves…
How many years would it take to succeed?
There are people out here interested in being the deviants who find a way to build a wiser, stronger society, in public. You can just reply to them, anytime.
They might even be reading this thread 🤫
2022-09-09
dreaming of a distributed, interconnected world of online communities and courses that help foster the next stages of collective human development
Of course, Erik Hoek himself has written wonderfully on the subject
2024-01-15
Perhaps because to have a golden age you have to actually try (quote from link) https://theintrinsicperspective.com/p/why-we-stopped-making-einsteins…
I can see the miracles and unexpected flourishing of the early years of a golden age that historians will say started two decades ago.
Can you?
2024-01-15
Perhaps we’re in the greatest Golden Age in human history, but it just doesn’t feel that way because it’s not restricted to a single culture, nation, or city-state, like golden ages of the past
Sports may be a bad model for human progress and flourishing, as a finite/zero-sum/well-structured game category.
http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/GameTheory
sports aren’t my model for human progress or flourishing (though they aren’t zero-sum at all, b/c they serve a purpose within an infinite, positive-sum social game called society, but i digress)
gold-medal athletes are model students, because they had to learn to be the best.
in other words, my point in bringing up sports is not “you too, dear reader, should become an athlete”
it’s “well, if the best athletes in the world are learning how to be the best by self-teaching from youtube, then dang, YouTube must be a pretty interesting technology.”