alt Hacker NewsThis is one area where we've proved to be fully unable to rise to the occasion.
The internet age opened a million of possibilities to improve education: improved visual explanations, scalable access to the world's best educators, lowered friction to access students to work with, replayable lessons...
We mostly just kept the old model and placed an addictive device in front of children.
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supaflybanzai • yesterday at 10:22 PM
And people still think AI era will bring prosperity for all and we will to have to work and just enjoy ourselves
Maybe it’s possible in theory to leverage our newest technologies as educational tools. But maybe it’s also incredibly challenging because it’s so easy to fuck up: a lonely peak of optimal outcomes surrounded by a vast space of net negative outcomes.
You mention the addictiveness of the devices, this probably plays a big role in shaping the outcome space.