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I wish people would understand that such a world means that new children have less and less of a chance at success.
by daodedickinson 10y ago
I wish people would understand that such a world means that new children have less and less of a chance at success.
- selimthegrim 10y agoDo you think that every idea people have can be carried out with their hands alone?
- jacquesm 10y agoNo, that's not true. They will simply have a new baseline when they exit their secondary education. Secondary education levels have been a moving target ever since we started educating people to the state-of-the-art. It's been a long time (centuries, really) since an individual could hold the complete state of science in their head so it is all teamwork now and nobody knows everything. So if you do your education today you simply learn more of something narrower.
- vacri 10y agoLife was much better for children back in the 19th century, before adult education really took off!
- CalRobert 10y agoThere are two issues here, I suspect. 1) Will people be able to meaningfully "produce"? So far our ability to learn has not outstripped the ability of the universe to provide interesting insights. 2) Will we share the fruits of that production in a way that helps new children? This, I'm not so sure about. I'm expecting a child soon and this worries me.
- josephagoss 10y agoWhat is the alternative?