Tag: experiential education
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Good point, best point
Pretty good point from Kirn: AI Chatbots simply formalize & make explicit the profoundly inert nature of collective thinking that made real artists & writers attractive in the first place. They are more important than ever now, in fact, as second-rate pseudo-creativity has consolidated itself as never before. Vastly stronger point from one of his […]
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Reprint on superhet
Linked in previous, worth bringing out on its own. This 2015 piece fits nicely with the newly found Carver quote: Start where you are. Work with what you have. Make something of it. Never be satisfied. The latter part of the piece also applies to this year’s AI cheating trend. Now that cheating is undetectable, […]
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The techtonic plates are shifting.
This is REFRESHING. The CEO of Chegg is interviewed at Davos. He strongly emphasizes the need for JOB-BASED TRAINING. Less classroom, less university, less credentialism, more HANDS and SKILLS. I had to look up Chegg. It’s in the same business I’m in, courseware and study aids. Seems to be mainly general subject tutoring, not specific […]
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Not just econ
The Quote Investigator on Medium traces a quote by economist Paul Samuelson: I don’t care who writes a nation’s laws if I can write its economics textbooks. The saying started around 1750 with songs, then later became poems, then Samuelson switched it to econ texts, adding: The first lick is the privileged one, impinging on […]
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Not woke, just literati
Kurt Mahlburg at MercatorNet is complaining about woke dictionaries. In 2020, Merriam-Webster infamously updated its entry for female to include “having a gender identity that is the opposite of male”. Now the online edition of the Cambridge Dictionary has gone one better: in addition to being “an adult female human being”, a woman is now […]
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New thought on experiential lessons
Shkreli’s advice to Sammy got me thinking again about my 1969 jail experience and the BIG lessons learned. I kept the lessons about basic human nature, but I lost the lesson about government. (I restored the lesson much later after throwing away the TV.) Questions: 1. How did I lose it? 2. Why was this […]
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Agreeing with Sam
The redditors are mocking Bankman-Fried’s attitude about books: “If you wrote a book you fucked up. You should have written six paragraphs.” I’m basically on Sam’s side. Six paragraphs is too extreme; the traditional long-form magazine article is right for most topics. Ten pages, 5000 words. I wouldn’t have agreed with Sam in 1980. Book […]
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Regret?
As equipoise to previous ‘thankful’ item, here’s a newly formed regret. This week I’ve had a standard common cold. It’s not standard for me! My nose gets annoyed sometimes from dust or allergens, but I haven’t had a proper cold in at least 50 years. I had to google the right way to cough and […]
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Write but not read
Just noticing an oddity for the hundredth time. ‘Write what you know’ is excellent advice. EXPERIENCE is the only thing that counts. When you know about a job or a skill or a place or a culture, you can IMMEDIATELY spot an outsider’s attempts to describe it. Staying inside your zone of familiarity also breeds […]
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One non-bad thing
Matt Stoller has been trying to persuade us that anti-trust regulation is improving. I’ve been waiting for VISIBLE EVIDENCE. The antitrusters have finally provided VISIBLE AND AUDIBLE EVIDENCE, and it’s in an area I know well. EnidBuzz features Evans Drug demonstrating the new over-the-counter hearing aids, which are connected through an iPhone. Oddly enough, this […]
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Build what you know
It’s easy to see the goal of bitcoin and DAO projects. Pump and dump, often in just a few hours. Cheap riches for the real-world swindlers who run the fake world. The dumps aren’t especially large by Wall Street standards, but 100k for a few keystrokes is an extremely high ROI. Well then, what’s the […]
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CMT
Still grinding on my Sputnik question, the failure of US education to teach skills. There’s an obvious line between physical skills like typing and soldering and cooking, versus symbolic skills like arithmetic and writing. New thought: There’s a more subtle line between symbolic skills like arithmetic and writing, versus symbolic description of the symbolic skills. […]
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Shannon in schools
Continuing as always on the Sputnik theme. Schools should only train SKILLS. The verbal material we “learned” in school was worse than useless. It was either false or irrelevant. If schools are going to include verbal material at all, it should be USEFUL material. Shannon information. History should be Machiavelli and Parkinson, preparing the students […]
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Montessori
I’ve been bemoaning the lack of school-based training and entertainment-based training about scams and swindles. Experience is the ONLY teacher, but there are two ways to acquire experience. Ideally a training experience should put you through most of the real situation without danger to your life or wealth. Whether intentionally or not, the DAO swindle […]
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The Great Tradeoff?
I was surprised last month when BEVERLY HILLS blocked an attempt by Los Angeles to resume NAZI STRANGULATION TORTURE. Peasants had been protesting for three fucking years, but peasant protests only bring out the storm troopers. Protests by courtiers are meaningful and influential. Machiavelli: The worst that a prince has to expect from a hostile […]
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