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2320 sats \ 9 comments \ @kr 26 Jan tech

1084 sats \ 4 replies \ @OneOneSeven 26 Jan

I stumbled upon this clip of Eric Weinstein the other day. He had a great quote:

The good news is that you can rearrange any subject to learn most of it very, very quickly. The bad news is it will feel terrible because you will be told you're doing the wrong thing and dooming yourself to a life of mediocrity as a Jack-Of-Many-Trades-Master-Of-None.... But in fact the problem is that the Jack-Of-One-Trade is the connector of none

100 sats \ 3 replies \ @kr OP 26 Jan

interesting take.

with every new subject i study, i already feel like i know nothing for a very long time… how will that feeling get worse with AI?

if anything, won’t the faster learning curve give people more confidence as they learn a new subject?

508 sats \ 2 replies \ @OneOneSeven 26 Jan

This was is 2019 before AI really took off. I think what he's saying is back then it was almost a superpower if you could figure out how to rearrange any subject to learn 80% with 5-10% effort. Depending on the subject, it may feel shitty because of the voices in legacy education will say "that's not the way you're supposed to learn it."

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @kr OP 26 Jan

ahh got it

135 sats \ 0 replies \ @OneOneSeven 26 Jan

Another great vid of Eric talking about AI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec-uNe_6vPA

AI has caused our "water to break" so to speak for capitalism, and a lot of people are running around worried about it rather than "getting to the hospital."

634 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 26 Jan

Intriguing. I'd like to try it myself.

72 sats \ 0 replies \ @kr OP 26 Jan

i think vastly improved education with AI is a sleeper side effect that most are ignoring right now.

saw this chart the other day showing the improved decision making quality among professional Go players after the release of AlphaGo.

Source

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GD-agfBWAAAYbIu?format=jpg&name=medium

365 sats \ 0 replies \ @398ja 26 Jan

This is exactly how I imagined ai would be applied to education. Fascinating to see how it's advancing!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @OT 26 Jan

Sounds amazing.

Saying something is hard does put an unnecessary barrier on learning. When I see people like Tim Ferris doing this and that I feel like they have high time preferences and learn things for the wrong reasons. There was a guy on Breedloves pod taking learning as an Olympic sport. I felt that that he want becoming a super skimmer though.

Some things are hard, and you will never learn everything about it like bitcoin, jazz, dharma. Going deep into that last 20% makes all the difference between an amateur and a professional.