The Case for Education
Crossposted on LessWrong and the EA Forum
The Memeticist
Memes worth spreading
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Room and Board for People Self-Learning ML or Doing Independent ML Research
Important context.
The Best Educational Institution in the World
Crossposted on LessWrong and the EA Forum
Blogs I’ve Been Reading
Here are some blogs I’ve been reading. I picked two posts for each blog that I think are particularly great or underrated.
Books I’ve Been Reading
Here are some books I’ve read since finishing the books on my Quarantine Reading List.
List of Peter Thiel’s Online Writings
This 100 page document has recently made the rounds: Thiel on Progress and Stagnation. Despite looking quite comprehensive, I was surprised to see that quite a few of Thiel’s online writings were absent from the references section. Maybe the creators of the document left those out on purpose, but I suspect they might just not have been aware of them. A lot of Thiel’s online writings appear in…
Patrick Collison on Effective Altruism
Crossposted on the EA Forum.
Students Are Employees
Education is a peculiar good. The usual model of private education is that the students are the consumers, the professors are the employees, and the lectures are the product. Students pay to receive the education they want. In reality, students pay more for the degree than the education. But let’s assume for now that education is all about increasing human capital, rather than being mostly about…
Harari on Religions and Ideologies
In Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari writes:
On Schools and Churches
From Ivan Illich’s Deschooling Society: