Jennifer Saviñón ₿ ⚡
184 posts




@ByrneHobart Prediction: Within a couple of years, your child will be learning from an app built by an Alpha School student. Related: SaaS market is doomed. I’m watching my $100m+ investment in Timeback be disrupted by the students.




Nothing has made me more optimistic about our AI future than visiting Alpha School. The dominant doomer narrative is that, even if we solve alignment, AI will automate so much that humans will be left with nothing but meaningless hedonism. As AI does more and more humans are reduced to less and less. Alpha School shows us that there exists an alternate path where human potential is realized, not truncated, by AI and where work becomes more meaningful. I shadowed Alpha’s co-founder MacKenzie Price (@mackenzieprice) for a week and was blown away by what I saw. They’ve replaced all of their human teachers with AI tutors that are able to offer bespoke, custom instruction to each student — the same kind of tutorship previously reserved for the aristocracy now scalable through technology. Her students spend only 2 hours a day on academics and yet consistently score 99th percentile in standardized testing and go on to study in the best colleges in the world. But what about teachers who now have all lost their jobs? They are hired as “guides” who dedicate all of their time to understanding and motivating their students instead of grading papers on the same basic material over and over again. For many, AI has freed them to spend more time on what attracted them to teaching in the first place — building human connection and inspiring the next generation. In this interview, we dive deep into Alpha’s philosophy and gain insight into the perennial questions in the philosophy of education: - Can virtue be taught? - Does nature overpower nurture? - What is the relationship between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation? Timestamps: 1:54 Our Education System is Obsolete 9:10 AI Tutors, 10x Learning 23:38 Confidence Can Be Taught 36:33 Universities In The Age of AI 40:14 How to Get Kids to Love School 42:22 External vs. Intrinsic Motivation 54:20 We Pay Kids Cold Hard Cash 1:02:13 Kids Want More School

Stablecoins just crossed $200B. In 5 years. Everyone's watching the number. Few are thinking about what the number means.






🚨NEW: I’ve had some new confirmations for Friday’s White House Crypto Summit. As of this morning, invites were still rolling out. Updated list (and more may be coming): 🔹@bgarlinghouse, @Ripple CEO 🔹@giancarloMKTS, former @CFTC Chairman & Senior Counsel at @WillkieFarr 🔹@nathanmccauley, @Anchorage CEO 🔹@Kris, @cryptocom CEO 🔹@cameron and @tyler, @Gemini founders 🔹@vladtenev, @RobinhoodApp CEO 🔹@arjunsethi, @krakenfx CEO 🔹@saylor, @MicroStrategy Founder and Executive Chairman 🔹@brian_armstrong, @coinbase CEO 🔹@SergeyNazarov, co-founder of @chainlink 🔹@KyleSamani, Managing Partner at @multicoin 🔹@ZachWitkoff, co-founder of @worldlibertyfi 🔹@jprichardson, @exodus CEO 🔹@matthuang, co-founder of @paradigm 🔹@DavidFBailey, CEO of @BitcoinMagazine
















