Now, I can design things like this: https://twitter.com/peroxycarbonate/status/1406745834830532608 … But I had to re-learn chemistry in a completely different way on my own to get to that point. I'm probably particularly incompatible with current educational styles, but there's a lot of ineffective cargo-culting.
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In general, the smarter someone is, the better they can learn on their own relative to learning from a teacher, unless you get them a proportionately smarter teacher, which is not usually what happens. What society should be doing is *allowing* that to happen.
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this is essentially the case i’m making:https://twitter.com/atroyn/status/1326637752897564672 …
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There's already such intense competition for grants that many professors spend most of their time on grant proposals. Adding more people to that system accomplishes little. Outside academia, a business degree is a better financial choice than a physics degree.
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There aren't jobs for more hard-science people in America. But there *is* a surplus of capital floating around, that could fund jobs. I think the problem is a failure of allocation, and the success of an absurd VC investment models shows the amount of inefficiency present.
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i’m not sure you and i are in any way disagreeing
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Right, I misunderstood what you meant by "production" of elites, & how much you meant "the current university system" by "education". Sorry. But I still feel there's some dispute... Investors do *try* to invest in the kinds of people you suggest, and then keep losing money.
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So the question is, what are they doing wrong? And I think we have some disagreement on *that* point. Bill Gates invests in, say,
@DanielleFong. She's smart. She has an idea. The startup fails. The pattern repeats, again and again. So what's the problem?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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Would you *like* a more in-depth analysis of your particular case? I can do that, if you're sure you want one!
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there’s probably no way to do a very good job at this without details that have not been published, so i deleted my tweet the background situation of 4 cleantech funding busts (07-09,11,14,15 china, ‘16) & exponentially dropping li ion cost is probably the single biggest factor
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