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Not asked: does anyone want this?

hombre_fatal 9mo ago
I hated sitting around in school classrooms so much that I fantasized about a system that would just give me work to do and I would turn it in and go about my day. This description of Alpha school might have been up my alley. AI learning certainly was. Either way, we do need to think about options for self-motivated students.
- Avicebron 9mo ago
  Is this really for the students? Or is this for the people who believe they (and by extension their children) are the "Alphas" of society.. are there other values we should be teaching than "superior people do this and if you don't do this you are the inferior".. time will tell I guess. Crabs in buckets and all that.
FuckButtons 9mo ago
No one chose the economy we had before either. You are who, what and where you are by virtue of historical accident. The serfs of the Middle Ages sure as shit didn’t want that economy either, nor did the unwashed masses, dying at such an alarming rate of dysentery and cholera that the population of major cities was only sustained through mass migration during industrialization in the 18th and 19th centuries. Nor did more or less any slave during human history. The last ~150 years of economic freedom and prosperity for a large percentage of the population that has been wide spread across industrialized economies is the exception, not the rule, and the difference is and always has been the fact that industrialized economies have required large amounts of skilled specialists to make the systems they developed work. If you change that calculus, there is no historical precedent to assume that human societies won’t revert to the mean.
- mbgerring 9mo ago
  idk I feel like I read a few things from history about people rejecting the economy that was forced on them and demanding better, maybe it was AI generated?
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- coldtea 9mo ago
  >You are who, what and where you are by virtue of historical accident. The serfs of the Middle Ages sure as shit didn’t want that economy either At least many of them fought hard to keep what they liked - plenty of peasant revolts and coming at feudal lords when they overdid it... Early industrial workers didn't like their economy and conditions either, fought hard, organized, and got many changes to labour laws and conditions. Us?
coldtea 9mo ago
"You'll own nothing, have a worse job, get fed slop, and be happy"

I hated sitting around in school classrooms so much that I fantasized about a system that would just give me work to do and I would turn it in and go about my day. This description of Alpha school might have been up my alley. AI learning certainly was. Either way, we do need to think about options for self-motivated students.

Avicebron 9mo ago
Is this really for the students? Or is this for the people who believe they (and by extension their children) are the "Alphas" of society.. are there other values we should be teaching than "superior people do this and if you don't do this you are the inferior".. time will tell I guess. Crabs in buckets and all that.

FuckButtons 9mo ago

No one chose the economy we had before either. You are who, what and where you are by virtue of historical accident. The serfs of the Middle Ages sure as shit didn’t want that economy either, nor did the unwashed masses, dying at such an alarming rate of dysentery and cholera that the population of major cities was only sustained through mass migration during industrialization in the 18th and 19th centuries. Nor did more or less any slave during human history. The last ~150 years of economic freedom and prosperity for a large percentage of the population that has been wide spread across industrialized economies is the exception, not the rule, and the difference is and always has been the fact that industrialized economies have required large amounts of skilled specialists to make the systems they developed work. If you change that calculus, there is no historical precedent to assume that human societies won’t revert to the mean.

mbgerring 9mo ago
idk I feel like I read a few things from history about people rejecting the economy that was forced on them and demanding better, maybe it was AI generated?
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coldtea 9mo ago
>You are who, what and where you are by virtue of historical accident. The serfs of the Middle Ages sure as shit didn’t want that economy either At least many of them fought hard to keep what they liked - plenty of peasant revolts and coming at feudal lords when they overdid it... Early industrial workers didn't like their economy and conditions either, fought hard, organized, and got many changes to labour laws and conditions. Us?

coldtea 9mo ago

"You'll own nothing, have a worse job, get fed slop, and be happy"