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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
41d ago“Should Anthropic and the Gates Foundation create K-12 AI curriculum without public oversight?”
- MK1752...
I don't buy the valuation that is being used to describe Musk as a trillionaire, but that said, if I did miraculously find myself with that much money in hand, this would be my plan: 1. Start a restaurant chain offering healthy fast food.... - susanmann...
I wonder how many people get the difference between a billion and a trillion? A billion seconds is almost 32 years. A trillion seconds is over 31,000 years. So with a trillion dollars, you could probably accomplish a lot.... - CoachWebb13...
I would absolutely eliminate world hunger and homelessness. When people have their basic needs met then they can focus on other areas such as education. Think of what it could be built if you weren't hungry or locking shelter?... - 62jazzmaster...
I was encouraged by my 5th grade teacher to continue to write poetry after submitting an assignment about rhyming. I eventually became a songwriter musician, largely due to her encouragement. I will forever be grateful to her.... - Mrs.Shire...
I grew up surrounded by addiction. I guess you could call them”functional” addicts, because they held jobs and kept us fed and housed. There was a lot of physical violence, too. My mom’s first husband whipped my brothers mercilessly day and night.... - Jay Williams...
I think our difficulty comes from making something complex and difficult that is actually very easy. What kind of future do we prepare our children for? Excellence in human relationship. That’s not going to change. Whatever else changes, that will always be the same.... - laymanpascal...
From a developmental perspective onr of the most interesting questions is how early and how safely can children be taught to not believe content. Without losing sincere engagement, we also need to acknowledge that images, videos,.voices, identities of people sending messages,... AI can be a trap, but it can also be a tool. When the internet first became popular in the mid-1990s, many people believed that it was full of porn. Everyone was afraid of the unknown and making up stories to support their fears.... - Sarah Sirena...
Thanks for this Jordan! I totally agree on bringing back a humble appreciation of spirituality in the mundane, and that an inflated sense of preciousness and specialness and hyper - "sacredness" has prevailed in the wellness/self help world/ spirituality world.... Yes, the punitive equilibrium is frustratingly stable because current coalition-formation mechanisms favor status-quo interests over evidence-based welfare maximization, but your hunch about intertwined civic engagement and education equilibria is spot on—both theory and empirics... That is about as heartbreaking and enraging as I was expecting, unfortunately. Sounds like we need better mechanisms for selecting these coalitions. Although my shooting-from-the-hip guess is that I stared at that for a while I'd find other equilibria around civic engagement,... - PaperTrails...
It's hard to take this comment too seriously. How do you "teach" what a "real" ANYTHING is that hasn't been proven to even exist in over 2000 years? Let alone claim to know what they definitely are not. This sounds more like brainwashing and a coherced belief system.... - kmitcham...
Hello, Just a quick question. Should religion, science, and education be integrated? Folks grab their pearls over literature that fails to match their definitions of right and wrong. The church used to control science and education and burned thought-leaders at the stake.... I appreciate both of these points - "it takes an awful lot to raise your hand and say "I have something to teach people about how to think and how to live." and charisma is a competence that produces outsized changes—this is an especially relevant characteristic with politicians... - aharoni...
I disagree with two key points. "Idiot savant" is generally a problematic term. We're in 2025, and we should beyond this condescending attitude to neurodivergent people. And in any case, it's not a very good comparison.... The best ways I've found to use AI are explaining concepts to me that I can easily grok but just am not familiar with, to do simple tasks that I can audit, and as a search engine.... I love this question and I don't know what to do with it. A jumble of thoughts: are the genuises in their own craft actually useful to the general public? Most physicists can't teach the basics really well, and the advanced physics aren't useful to most people. BUT JORDAN!...