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MacKenzie Price says a high school senior graduating at the 50th percentile knows the same math as a third grader in the 99th percentile "a third of students can do math or reading at grade level, right? So it's an incredibly low amount" "a high school senior who graduates in the 50th percentile, you know, your average high school senior, they know the same amount of math as a third grader who's in the 99th percentile" "half of our students in in you know the country that we graduate don't know as much math as a 99th percentile third grader. It's absolutely crazy" "for kids that are just average kids, you could really look at four years of high school as basically a waste of time for them. They barely improve at all" If you're new here, follow @LearningToan for the sharpest lessons from the world's best minds. — MacKenzie Price, founder of Alpha School, on Chris Williamson's ( @ChrisWillx ) Modern Wisdom.

Cole Hastings says teachers earn 27% less than comparable college grads, and that's why classrooms are falling apart "the biggest reason was simply that too few candidates are applying for open positions" "public school teachers earn 73.4 cents for every dollar relative to the earnings of similar professionals in 2023" "people are much more willing to put up with... kids if they're getting paid fairly for it" "the ones that did decide to pursue a degree in education... now have to put up with what is allegedly the most illtempered and self-centered generation there is" If you're new here, follow @LearningToan for the sharpest lessons from the world's best minds. — Cole Hastings, education content creator, on Cole Hastings' channel

Pavel Durov says he was put in an experimental Soviet school that tried to overwhelm a teenage brain on purpose, and the results was mind boggling... "At the age of 11, I got the opportunity to enter an experimental school in St. Petersburg" "You would have four foreign languages at least including Latin, English, French, German. In addition, you can get ancient Greek. You would have classes like biochemistry or psychoanalysis or evolutionary psychology." "Since it was an experimental class, it wasn't possible to become a straight A student to be excellent in all the subject. It was like considered crazy to even try." "You're just pushing the limits of the human mind, four languages in parallel, math, evolutionary psychology, just overwhelming the mind and see what happens." If you're new here, follow @LearningToan for the sharpest lessons from the world's best minds. — Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, on Lex Fridman's ( @lexfridman ) Lex Fridman Podcast

Pavel Durov says removing competition from schools to protect kids is quietly wrecking generations "Competition is really important. Competition is key. This is what motivates a lot of teenagers when they're at school." "If you remove competition out of the education system, you end up forcing kids to start competing elsewhere. For example, in video games." "Yes, you eliminate the losers, but you end up eliminating the winners as well." "What you have as a result is high suicide rates, high unemployment, all the things and negative trends you see now in many countries which thought eliminating competition from their education system was a good idea." If you're new here, follow @LearningToan for the sharpest lessons from the world's best minds. — Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, on Lex Fridman's ( @lexfridman ) Lex Fridman Podcast

Alpha School's co-founder says they pay pre-K kids cold hard cash to hit academic goals, here's why: "We wish that every kid were intrinsically motivated, that every human was intrinsically motivated. But unfortunately, that's not the case." "So, for example, one of the things we do, we do it starting in pre-K, we pay kids. What do you think of that? We pay them cold hard cash, baby." "So, we have a school currency, and it's like a one to four ratio to the US dollar. And we pay kids for hitting their academic goals each day." "That kid though would walk in every day, she'd look at that squishy, and she'd say, 'Okay, the only thing stopping me from getting that squishy is the alphas that I can earn by doing my math and my reading, right?'" If you're new here, follow @LearningToan for the sharpest lessons from the world's best minds. — McKinsey Price, co-founder of Alpha School, on Jonathan Bi's ( @JonathanBi1 ) show

McKinsey Price says when kids struggle in school, the school should be blamed, not the kid... "So, in a traditional system, when a student's not doing well, it's usually considered the student's fault. It's either hey, they're not the sharpest kid, they're not great at math, or they're lazy, they're disengaged, they're not doing something. We take the opposite approach." "We believe that if a child is not thriving in our system, it's our fault. It's the school's fault." "Number one, they're either not getting that right level and pace of learning that is right for them, or we haven't motivated the child." If you're new here, follow @LearningToan for the sharpest lessons from the world's best minds. — McKinsey Price, co-founder of Alpha School, on Jonathan Bi's ( @JonathanBi1 ) show

Jordan Peterson says most teachers can't explain why the subject they teach even matters... "My experience in school was and this included university was that it was often the case that the teachers who were attempting to impart information actually had no idea whatsoever why what they were teaching was good for anything" "I especially remember that in mathematics because I would ask the educator why I needed to know this and they didn't know" "Well, if you don't know what it's good for, why should I be interested in it?" If you're new here, follow @LearningToan for the sharpest lessons from the world's best minds. — Jordan B Peterson ( @jordanbpeterson ), clinical psychologist, on Jordan B Peterson's ( @jordanbpeterson ) Answer the Call

Jordan Peterson says a famous US program proved you cannot give kids a lasting IQ boost, even with early enrichment "there was a huge program in the United States started in the 1960s which was supported by conservatives and liberals alike called Head Start" "the kids who went to Head Start did do better than their age matched and socioeconomic matched peers who didn't go to Head Start, but the differences disappeared by grade five or grade six" "so there was no improvement in cognitive function" "that was really saddening... because it was a good hypothesis. Like the idea that you could get a leap ahead early seems so obvious that you'd think it was incontrovertible. It just happens not to be true" If you're new here, follow @LearningToan for the sharpest lessons from the world's best minds. — Jordan B Peterson ( @jordanbpeterson ), clinical psychologist, on Jordan B Peterson's ( @jordanbpeterson ) Answer the Call

A student says her private school costs so much per day she could buy a new iPhone every single day she attends "I go to a very expensive private school and so um I think about that number a lot especially like the cost per day" "I like I think I broke it down once and it's like you know I could buy a new iPhone for every day that I'm here" "that is insane number to me" If you're new here, follow @LearningToan for the sharpest lessons from the world's best minds. — College student, on Jubilee's Middle Ground

OpenAI's head of education admits schools broke trust with students by using AI detectors that don't work "I mentioned this before like I was frustrated because like the AI detectors were terrible" "there were these AI detector like one I could show somebody how to write text that would be flagged as AI and also how to prompt a thing to avoid it" "you take one or two students who didn't cheat and told they're cheaters, that's just" "In in many institutions, I would say we got off onto the wrong foot with AI in the classroom" If you're new here, follow @LearningToan for the sharpest lessons from the world's best minds. — Leah Belsky, Head of Education at OpenAI, on the OpenAI Podcast

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Jensen Huang opens up about his plan to upload his consciousness to a humanoid robot in space within his lifetime. "It's a reasonable thing to expect the end of disease," Huang says. "It's a reasonable thing to expect that pollution will be drastically reduced." "It's a reasonable thing to expect that traveling at the speed of light is actually in our future." The third one has a catch. He doesn't mean speed of light for long distances. Even at light speed, the math kills interstellar travel. He means short ones, where the destination matters. Like Earth to a humanoid robot Huang plans to launch on a one-way trip. Then Huang explained the mechanism: "Very soon, I'm gonna put a humanoid on a spaceship — my humanoid — and we're gonna send it out as soon as possible." "It's gonna keep improving and enhancing along the flight." "All of my consciousness has already been uploaded to the internet." "Take all my inbox, take everything that I've done, everything I've said. It's been collected and becoming my AI." "When the time comes, we'll just send that at the speed of light, catch up with my robot." The humanoid is the carrier. The inbox is the passenger. Speed of light is the courier. And Huang says all of this is reasonable to expect. P.S. Pull the thread on any story like this and you'll find the hidden incentive at the other end. As Munger said: "Show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome." So I wrote a short book on how to spot them and design your own. Comment "INCENTIVES" and I'll send you the details. If you're new here, follow @GeniusGTX for content on the greatest minds in economics, psychology, and history. — Jensen Huang ( @nvidia ), NVIDIA CEO, on Lex Fridman's ( @lexfridman ) podcast

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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang says one scaling law multiplies AI faster than NVIDIA can hire engineers. Most people know three AI scaling laws. Pre-training. Post-training. Test-time. Each one multiplies intelligence by throwing more compute at a different stage. Jensen Huang says

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In 1939, A research team began secretly stealing identical twins. • The kids knew nothing. • The adoptive parents knew nothing. • Some were blocks apart. Some were in the same classroom. Over 50 years later... The patterns they witnessed blew me away🧵

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One night in 1899, Nikola Tesla detected some mysterious signals from his tower. He believed it came from Mars, Jupiter, or even aliens from another universe. What he heard was much more fascinating: [THREAD] 🧵

Dwarkesh Patel says give any human 0.0001% of what an LLM has read and they'd produce thousands of new ideas. But the LLM produces none. "Give me one new idea, one fundamental new idea that's been generated." Naval continues: "Every poem ever written by an LLM is garbage. I think even their fiction writing is terrible." "They're very bad at actually distilling the essence of something and what's important. They don't have an opinion or a point of view." "They are a fundamental breakthrough in computing. It is a different way to program a computer. Rather than you explicitly speak its language and write the code, you just run enough data through it until it figures out how to write the program." "But are they AGI? Not yet. And I don't see a direct path from here to there." P.S. I made a playbook breaking down 100+ most powerful decision making mental models used by history's greatest thinkers. 5,000+ downloads. 113 five-star reviews. Grab a free copy here: besuperhuman.gumroad.com/l/mentalmodels — Naval Ravikant ( @naval ), co-founder of AngelList, on Chris Williamson's ( @ChrisWillx ) Modern Wisdom

Elon Musk reveals Tesla is building a 30,000-robot academy where humanoids learn from each other. Cars were easy. Tesla had ten million on the road, beaming back driving data every second. But humanoid robots? There weren't ten million Optimi yet. There weren't ten... Robotics had run data-starved for decades. Tesla decided to fix it. You couldn't train a humanoid that had never been deployed. So Musk built a school for them instead. "We can have at least 10,000 Optimus robots, maybe 20-30,000, that are doing self-play and testing different tasks." Tesla called it the **Optimus Academy**. Picture a warehouse the size of a chip fab. Thirty thousand humanoid robots inside. Picking things up. Folding clothes. Walking. Tripping. Catching themselves. Failing in ways no human roboticist had thought to script. Each watching the others, learning what the human body shouldn't have made look easy. Every move generated a data point. Every failure generated a sample. Every robot taught every other robot. In simulation, Tesla could spin up a million robots overnight. But simulated physics lied about friction, slip, and drift. Real physics didn't. Cars learned from drivers. Optimi learned from each other. Each generation made the next one cheaper, faster, smarter. By the tenth generation, no human would recognize the curriculum. Recursive learning at electromechanical scale. Musk, on closing the loop: "You use the tens of thousands of robots in the real world to close the simulation to reality gap." Whoever opened the academy first owned the species. If you're new here, @GeniusGTX is a gallery for the greatest minds in economics, psychology, and history. Follow along for more similar content. — Elon Musk ( @elonmusk ), CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, on Dwarkesh Patel's ( @dwarkesh_sp ) podcast

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Elon Musk says steel killed carbon fiber on Starship at one-fiftieth the cost. Carbon fiber was supposed to be the future of rocketry. Lighter than aluminum. Stronger than steel. Trusted by every Formula 1 team. SpaceX picked it for Starship. "Particularly if you go for a

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