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taurathtoday at 3:21 AM2 repliesview on HN

> your opinion of kids needing a good human teacher is overfit to your experience of having those growing up

None of the AI stuff has been proven to be safe or effective for kids going thru an extremely important growth time for personality development and relational attachment. Your experience of having bad teachers doesn’t negate that the best way we know to enrich kids lives is to have effective and empathetic human teachers.


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hannofcarttoday at 3:33 AM

> is to have effective and empathetic human teachers

In the vast majority of the developing world, there are hardly any of those!

Here's a glimpse of what public education in India is like:

https://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/the-sorry-state-of-education-in-in...

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sigmartoday at 4:29 AM

Proven to be safe? Do you want a randomized trial? Do you demand that of every math tutorial video that goes up on YouTube?

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