1/ Worth noting, Specialization is probably an artifact of an era where there’s a great emphasis on optimizing total production output, and crystallized into various social institutions (ie, formal education) during the Industrial Revolution.https://twitter.com/hugohanoi/status/970093455064973312 …
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4/ e.g. Software engineers rely on automated tools to perform their jobs. You don’t need to know how to write a compiler or how CPU instruction cycle works in order to be a great engineer.
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5/ Machines are more suited for specialization, freeing us to do more high level “synthetic” thinking. Machine+human combo beats humans alone at any task, as we have recently seen with DeepMind demonstrations with AlphaGo & AlphaZero.
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6/ So we are already moving towards this direction, but rigid institutions like schools are still caught in the past. Millions of students churned out every year ill-equipped to deal with challenges of the future.
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7/ Unlike most people, I don’t believe in geniuses. I believe with the right kind of education & the right kind of motivation, anyone can reach great potential. We could have many Nick Szabo’s. But we need to start thinking differently about education.
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