What The Daily Stoic Says About Education
48 episodes about education
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Key Insights on Education
Labs spending billions on RL training for specific skills contradicts claims of imminent human-like learning capabilities
- Continual learning will progress like in-context learning - gradual improvement over 5-10 years, not sudden breakthrough
- The underlying AI technology exponential has progressed roughly as expected, moving from 'smart high school student to smart college student to beginning PhD level' - Dario
- "If you can't explain it to a smart high school student, you don't understand it" - Chris wrote Read Write Own as crypto's 2024 onboarding manual for skeptics
- Only circumcised covenant members could partake of the Passover meal, paralleling Catholic teaching on Eucharistic participation
- Most experts are experts in a previous version of the world, not the one you're trying to create - fast learning matters most
- Scripture reveals God's 'plus one theory of education' - helping people progress gradually from their current moral level
- The Prussian school system emerged from military needs to train conscripts, creating the modern educational model used in America today
Episodes
Men Are Reading Less Fiction. That’s A Problem. | Steven Pressfield
What Our Fathers Teach Us, For Better Or Worse | Tom Junod
How To Love Your Country Without Lying About It | Ty Seidule
Recognize These Signs of Weakness | 7 Daily Habits That Will Change Your Life
A Stoic Masterclass for Ambitious People | Codie Sanchez