Why the Star Trek Future Isn't What You Think: Humans vs. Artificial Intelligence
The Education Wars Part XV
Other Education Wars articles can be found here.
The following video is in the very first Education Wars article. However, since the vast majority of RTE readers likely haven't seen it, I wanted to present it again, and to focus on some particular aspects of the education conversation.
I gave this talk during a series organized by the 1517 Fund, which is a Thiel-orbit venture capital group.
https://rumble.com/v1lbqs9-math-education-why-the-star-trek-future-isnt-what-you-think.html
Contents: I walk through my experience and research showing that relative to the traditional educational system, we can achieve three to five standard deviations of improvement for most students simply by changing the educational system. Why would we wait around for leaps that might be impossible or improbable when we can dramatically improve the outcomes for nearly every student?
We might even wonder if we're inundated by messages about the greatness of artificial intelligence to placate our desire to do better. Is the goal to keep the population dull and thus easier to govern in the increasingly totalitarian, fascist state?
Topics:
A modern mathematics education program that I helped build and that demonstrably changed the world.
Culture and community are primary variables.
Storytelling is under-utilized in technical education.
Mathematics is artistic and playful. (A Mathematician's Lament)
The Penrose Model: Mental state jujitsu
Self-Motivation Feedback loops
Distraction as a serious obstacle
Yerkes-Dodson Law: Organizing human energy waves on a time scale
The Two-Sigma Problem → Personal communication wins big.
Adult education (Yes, it's possible for older people to learn math.)
Charter schools for underserved students (an imperfect intermediate step)
IQ is far less static than people think. We may be able to move it dozens of points!
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"Yes, it's possible for older people to learn math."
It's popular to say never stop learning but we have seen our culture is very committed to building walls around areas of learning guarded by academic fiefdoms & we are conditioned to defer to their credentials and limit our own thinking to end where expert consensus draws the line. Who could have guessed the depth of corruption would blow that model to smithereens!
There are so many priceless lessons the pandemic has gifted all with the curiosity to ask questions about any facet of official claims. So many gifted teachers have not only emerged in specialty areas but worked together to broaden a big picture for a lay audience.
Fab reminder learning is a steep climb one fingerhold at a time & better than a diploma to see what a joke it is Funky Debunk's math and grasp of relevant calculations are dwarfed by mine. His egomaginary blindness stunning.
The argument that IQ is static is basically equivalent to taking 1000 people, measuring their squat, bench press and deadlift over time, then asserting because the population average doesn't change, strength is static. And if someone goes to the gym, adopts a proper program and improves their lifts, then the claim is made that they didn't really improve their strength, they just improved their skill at specific lifts.