STEAL IDEAS FROM OTHER LIFEFORMS BEFORE THEY DIE OFF Which organisms are we most likely to benefit from stealing ideas from? Can we prevent them from going ext

STEAL IDEAS FROM OTHER LIFEFORMS BEFORE THEY DIE OFF Which organisms are we most likely to benefit from stealing ideas from? Can we prevent them from going extinct before we get to learn those ideas? Is there a way to capture the ideas pre-extinction? Even the tools that we now have to change the blueprints of life, we stole from life. Bateria and Viruses are the source of our most powerful DNA editing tools currently. We are meat. Animals are meat. The animals have all kinds of amazing tricks and tools their meat has developed. We could use some of their tools. If they become extinct, we can't learn well from them any longer. If you want to take advantage of the millions of years of building with the best tools we're aware of, real evolution over long time periods, and you don't want to wait for a couple million or hundred million years for the next go round of that thing maybe evolving again, then you should try to prevent extinction of the organisms most useful to learn from for our own benefit. MINIMUM VIABLE EDUCATION What is the minimum effective dose of teachable knowledge/skill. Input, process, output. ala grammar, logic, rhetoric, trivium fame. Success leaves clues. The most effective often have little mental tricks they apply when thinking, some are mnemonic, some are turning ideas into locations, some are pretending new ideas are just like old ideas, and applying the old learnings, etc. Find those powerful commonalities. Stop making kids bad versions of google. We don't need more bad data storage in human minds, we need more of what the machines can't do yet, creativity, love. If you must make kids bad versions of google and shove facts into them for lossy storage, then at least teach them mnemonic technique and logic first, google-fu, so as to amplify all their future efforts. Do not teach the amplifiers last, let them pay dividends over time. I was lucky enough to have logic tought to me first before any other maths at grade 6, because of an experimental advanced education system. After logic we learned scheme programming. I think those frameworks greatly helped me in this life, as nesting of ideas and good data processing is super powerful in all areas of life. Better and worse exist, find better, choose better. Do not be a coward and pretend that worse doesn't exist. summary: teach amplifiers first. Then teach minimum effective commonly useful data processing, then specialize and become great. Specialization is why we have genders. Dimorphism lets us not over-allocate excellence in a single place at the cost of another place. Great things come from specialists. If the value of skill is in opposite proportion to supply of that skill, then everyone learning the same things, by definition means no one will pay for that skill or knowledge. There's some exclusions to that idea, such as language itself, however the theme of slapping knowledge/skill on a supply/demand curve is a good one. Much of this idea is hammer in Peter Thiels 0-1. less 1 to 1 horizontal iteration and more 0 to 1, no one else is working on this thing kind greatness. What is minimum effective curriculum before specializing? What is the minimum viable education? What is the correct execution order of those skills? For instance, how important is it to teach kids to write essays, when they actually don't have much useful to say? Maybe you should work on having useful things to say much harder before you learn how to beautifully say them. Imagine that you did the opposite, imagine that you taught effective rhetoric before logic, and now you've got better salesmen of bad ideas. That's worse, not better. Think of the places in the world where women aren't allowed to drive cars. How did that terrible situation arise? Great marketing of terrible ideas.