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Recall that what made the Primer so effective in Diamond Age is that it had access to enormous external financial and human resources. The later copies that ra
by PAPPPmAc 4y ago
Recall that what made the Primer so effective in Diamond Age is that it had access to enormous external financial and human resources. The later copies that raised the Mouse Army and did not have those resources were (intentionally) not great liberators like the original.
- mherdeg 4y agoRight but they did very effectively program an army of young minds to obey the principles of the learning system's creator. One major takeaway from The Diamond Age is that being in charge of the learning system is an incredibly powerful position. Don't hear so much about Khan Academy anymore, could you get an LLM to make new content in their style while also transmitting your desired values?
- jbottoms 4y ago'Course, we've known, "Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever" --Lenin