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I think these institutions give us a lot less than just taking their one or two best inventions (eg antibiotics, safe child delivery) and getting rid of the rest. There’s far too much noise and cruft and evil in with the signal
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Fewer giant poorly outcome-measured monopolistic authoritative bureaucracies more well studied individual ambitious interventions (eg antibiotics), much more technology to increase energy and motivation and democratize equanimity and extraordinarily high well-being
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MOOCs and books already have far better teachings than 99.9% of teachers in any school. But people don’t take or finish MOOCs. If we want people to learn more we need to help change emotions to radically improve curiosity, energy, and motivation, not build expensive new buildings
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But at the end of the day for almost everyone equanimity and well-being is more important than education. We don’t have to attach our identity and self-worth to whether we’re good at things
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The most curious people in history (eg da Vinci) didn’t need school they just mercilessly extracted as much from wherever they were then sought out new places to learn all there is to learn from. We need more da Vinci-like qualia, coercion just doesn’t work well, and it’s mean
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If we had something like coffee that made you see the beauty in the world as Leondardo did, and feel the curiosity he felt, we’d have the biggest golden age in education and invention there has ever been, without changing anything else. Everything else is small in comparison
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What is the goal of k-12 education, what do we owe each other, what do people deserve. But if we can't/ don't want to have these conversations, then idk.
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i love the last part of that statement. i always wanted to start an institute where kids could run away. leave the nightmare that was grade school for me growing up. i was weird, teachers hated me, argued w/ everyone, had no idea i had super powers of sort until college.
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Can I help you with this, please? I always wanted a thing like this to exist, and I dropped out of high school because it didn't.
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