Hardeep

Great article - The Simon Abundance Index: A New Way to Measure Availability of Resources. This article shows that measured for inflation, we are already in a world of abundance and the price of goods has been decreasing. cato.org/policy-analysi…

Today, nobody is against electricity, or electrification. But the anti-data centre backlash we are seeing today has a precedent: the anti-electricity backlash of the early 1900s. They thought electricity would lead to horrible things. Here's a propaganda cartoon from then:

I'll tell you what humans are good at: stories. Stories aren't just fictional tales told to amuse. They are what happens when you see a series of events, and you create a narrative that connects them in a chain of causes and effects. Without stories, you can't understand your world. Without stories, you can't build technology or civilization. Without stories, you can't even learn things. Every mental operation that humans are bad at, like mathematics or chess, we are bad at because we have to translate it into stories first, then deal with it as stories with a brain optimized for stories. This is like trying to pound nails with the handle of a screwdriver.

What the gov has to do is meet the demands of the youth which they won't be able to do. So the youth of India might stick to the CJP thing and take it on a level that is unimaginable. Let's see what happens.

The government of India may not be able to solve the mass unemployment problem anytime soon so we might see the rise of CJP on a big level. The gov already has started banning the accounts of CJP but that won't help.

In India the youth has been able to launch a satirical party and got it to over 15 million followers in less than 3 days. You would not be able to do such a thing in China for 2 reasons.

There's a whole book called The Case Against Adolescence. Adolescence was created as a category in the 20th century. Prior to the 20th century, we didn't even have the category of adolescence. Andrew Carnegie, Ben Franklin, John Muir, and Thomas Edison all began their professional careers at 13. Back in the 18th and 19th centuries in the U.S. and in much of the world, teenagers had pretty much adult-level responsibilities and started their lives. One of the biggest flaws in our society is the infantilization of adolescence. Teen suicides have increased three times since the 1950s. I think education, traditional school, is humiliating for many kids who don't happen to be good at school. The goal is for every TSE student to be doing adult-level professional work or better by the age of 18. I've had students start companies and write novels. I had one who was a day trader, somebody else who did a website for the American Idol finalist, had a student who did a music festival in Austin, a three-day music festival, 80,000 budget.

A proper education once meant: — Reading difficult books — Writing long essays — Learning history — Studying philosophy — Training memory — Arguing clearly Now it means: — Career prep — Standardized testing — Group projects — Slide decks — Credential collection Somewhere along the way, education became workforce training.

Socially Programmed Male Mediocrity I had a conversation with a young man - a fitness trainer - in the sauna this evening about how he didn't want to begin posting social media content for the wrong reasons. He was analysing himself into paralysis because he didn't want to accidentally do it for an egoic reason of achieving followers or whatever. It is his long term vision to share good information, help people be healthier and so forth, so social media is part of that path. I know this kid, and he's absolutely not that egoic type of personality, but he was so worried about not being egoic that he had just not taken any action so far. It's a very common analysis-paralysis issue. The reason that your brain will tell you that you're not acting can be different, but it raised in me this other issue which I think is prevalent in today's society. It's one that young men who want to achieve and become successful are browbeaten down into not wanting that, or making themselves think that there is something wrong with them for wanting to achieve, for wanting renown or fame or success. I think that's terrible - and I don't think that it is good for them or society. Obviously, you don't want to pursue vain metrics for reasons of self-worship, but as I said, this kid has his head screwed on right, he’s not like that at all. He's more so, in my opinion, playing to the broader societal perception which is that it's evil for a young man to want success and to want to win, because that may be at the expense of others or it may be putting their head above the masses to rise or strive for something. And if that's your dominant culture, then your society is doomed. That is the case where I am in Australia, and this sauna interaction is a microcosm of the larger, broader picture. As I said, it inspired in me to share these thoughts because if you are a young man with desires to achieve, to be greater, to rise above the crowd, then you should not let that diminish in you and never feel bad about that. The progress of society that raises everyone up is built on the achievements of men who dare to go higher and who don't care what the crowd is doing. They will achieve and be competitive and use their ego to motivate themselves to do these things, and it’s perfectly natural and good to do so.

If a kid loves playing sports, they should be encouraged to do that. If a kid loves to run a business and talk with strangers they should be encouraged to do that. The real world skills are the things that need to be taught as they are the most important.

If the kid is gifted in some way than they may do good but 90% of the kids are not like that. The problem is forcing those 90% of the kids to be like the 10% of the kids. What instead to be done is help those 90% do things that they like.

The reason why kids or even adults spend so much time scrolling social media is looking for motivation or inspiration. You don't get inspired to read school textbooks, there's nothing inspiring in that.

The more AI tools we have that assist with education, the more personalized we can make the learning. Schools are not able to do this because they have a rigid curriculum. Its the parents or the students themselves who have to experiment with new things.

If a person likes history, especially about world war, than having videos showing real life scenarios can get them to see through those periods. With that having personas of people who fought the war and using there voice would help learn about the history better.

When education is personalized, more students would want to learn. If a kid loves football and math problems are presented to them related to football, they are more likely to work towards solving them.