Education

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Exams-Only Universities

Mati_Roy6 Nov 2022 22:05 UTC

77 points

40 comments2 min readLW link

Childhoods of exceptional people

Henrik Karlsson6 Feb 2023 17:27 UTC

297 points

56 comments15 min readLW link

(escapingflatland.substack.com)

How to teach things well

Neel Nanda28 Aug 2020 16:44 UTC

101 points

15 comments15 min readLW link 1 review

(www.neelnanda.io)

Notes from “Don’t Shoot the Dog”

juliawise2 Apr 2021 16:34 UTC

223 points

11 comments12 min readLW link 1 review

Study Guide

johnswentworth6 Nov 2021 1:23 UTC

244 points

42 comments16 min readLW link

Against Active Shooter Drills

Zvi16 Jun 2022 13:40 UTC

91 points

30 comments7 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Case Against Education

Zvi15 Apr 2018 12:30 UTC

77 points

45 comments7 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Bring up Genius

Viliam8 Jun 2017 17:44 UTC

101 points

63 comments20 min readLW link

The Sheepskin Effect

Zvi5 May 2018 12:10 UTC

10 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Debugging the student

Adam Zerner16 Dec 2020 7:07 UTC

43 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

The True Face of the Enemy

Space L Clottey12 Jan 2021 10:03 UTC

36 points

77 comments10 min readLW link

How my school gamed the stats

Srdjan Miletic20 Feb 2021 19:23 UTC

82 points

26 comments4 min readLW link

Seven Years of Spaced Repetition Software in the Classroom

tanagrabeast4 Mar 2021 2:42 UTC

256 points

38 comments34 min readLW link 1 review

Apprenticeship Online

Henrik Karlsson9 Oct 2021 13:50 UTC

48 points

18 comments11 min readLW link

(escapingflatland.substack.com)

The Learning System

Henrik Karlsson3 Dec 2021 19:08 UTC

16 points

12 comments10 min readLW link

(escapingflatland.substack.com)

Internet Literacy Atrophy

Elizabeth26 Dec 2021 12:30 UTC

109 points

49 comments3 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

AMA: I was unschooled for most of my childhood, then voluntarily chose to leave to go to a large public high school.

iceplant7 Jan 2022 7:48 UTC

53 points

37 comments1 min readLW link

Christopher Alexander’s architecture for learning

Henrik Karlsson24 Mar 2022 9:11 UTC

42 points

8 comments9 min readLW link

(escapingflatland.substack.com)

Popular education in Sweden: much more than you wanted to know

Henrik Karlsson17 May 2022 20:07 UTC

113 points

2 comments11 min readLW link

(escapingflatland.substack.com)

Book Review: How Learning Works

whales19 Jan 2014 20:45 UTC

56 points

16 comments17 min readLW link

The Case Against Education: Foundations

Zvi21 Apr 2018 14:30 UTC

28 points

6 comments10 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Effective children education

kotrfa3 Jun 2020 20:35 UTC

48 points

29 comments2 min readLW link

Stories About Education

Ben Pace4 Sep 2019 19:53 UTC

38 points

1 comment13 min readLW link

[Question] When should we expect the education bubble to pop? How can we short it?

jacobjacob9 Feb 2019 21:39 UTC

35 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

Problems in Education

ThinkOfTheChildren29 Apr 2013 21:00 UTC

49 points

7 comments12 min readLW link

Interesting critique of British education by outgoing advisor (warning: some politics)

bramflakes12 Oct 2013 16:43 UTC

39 points

36 comments13 min readLW link

The Case Against Education: Splitting the Education Premium Pie and Considering IQ

Zvi29 Apr 2018 12:40 UTC

7 points

5 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Scientifically optimizing education: Hard problem, or solved problem? Introducing the Theory of Direct Instruction

Owen_Richardson31 Aug 2011 5:28 UTC

22 points

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What Direct Instruction is

[deleted]4 Sep 2011 23:03 UTC

69 points

81 comments4 min readLW link

Review: Michel Thomas French (Direct Instruction)

[deleted]22 Sep 2011 8:34 UTC

40 points

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What is wrong with mathematics education?

Perplexed20 Mar 2011 2:40 UTC

24 points

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A Gamification Of Education: a modest proposal based on the Universal Decimal Classification and RPG skill trees

Ritalin7 Jul 2013 18:27 UTC

18 points

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Online education and Conscientiousness

gwern24 Feb 2012 21:05 UTC

21 points

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Education control?

PhilGoetz17 May 2013 16:32 UTC

21 points

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A Rational Education

wedrifid23 Jun 2010 5:48 UTC

19 points

149 comments4 min readLW link

Separating university education from grading

Stefan_Schubert3 Jul 2014 17:23 UTC

16 points

60 comments2 min readLW link

Minerva Project: the future of higher education?

Natha10 Nov 2014 5:59 UTC

18 points

16 comments2 min readLW link

Education as Entertainment and the Downfall of LessWrong

SquirrelInHell4 Mar 2016 14:06 UTC

14 points

30 comments2 min readLW link

Education via Cell Phone in Africa

[deleted]22 Dec 2012 17:47 UTC

12 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Seeking education

APMason17 Feb 2012 0:55 UTC

12 points

31 comments1 min readLW link

Role-reversal education for math and science students (pilot project)

EvelynM1 Jan 2012 0:09 UTC

10 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

I Want to Learn About Education

fiddlemath20 Jan 2011 3:46 UTC

12 points

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There are 125 sheep and 5 dogs in a flock. How old is the shepherd? / Math Education

James_Miller17 Oct 2016 0:12 UTC

10 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

(medium.com)

Remembering school math fondly

[deleted]27 Nov 2016 18:00 UTC

5 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

Rethinking Education

Adam Zerner15 Feb 2014 5:22 UTC

−1 points

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The Future of Education

Michelle_Z14 Feb 2012 20:58 UTC

0 points

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Choosing universities based on their major-specific strengths for undergraduate education

VipulNaik5 Oct 2013 0:44 UTC

3 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Experimenting with education [link]

Dr_Manhattan23 Feb 2011 13:21 UTC

3 points

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DARPA Digital Tutor: Four Months to Total Technical Expertise?

JohnBuridan6 Jul 2020 23:34 UTC

200 points

19 comments7 min readLW link

The Math Learning Experiment

Qiaochu_Yuan21 Mar 2018 21:59 UTC

56 points

32 comments4 min readLW link

Teachers vs. Tutors

[deleted]26 Oct 2010 16:59 UTC

18 points

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Tutoring Small Groups of Children (for money)

bramflakes20 Feb 2013 11:51 UTC

11 points

27 comments1 min readLW link

A Year of Spaced Repetition Software in the Classroom

tanagrabeast4 Jul 2015 22:30 UTC

173 points

26 comments13 min readLW link

A Second Year of Spaced Repetition Software in the Classroom

tanagrabeast1 May 2016 22:14 UTC

65 points

30 comments21 min readLW link

Advanced Placement exam cutoffs and superficial knowledge over deep knowledge

JonahS1 Sep 2013 21:01 UTC

12 points

22 comments2 min readLW link

Career prospects for physics majors

JonahS4 Apr 2014 3:02 UTC

20 points

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Don’t depend on others to ask for explanations

Wei_Dai18 Sep 2019 19:12 UTC

77 points

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Is Rationality Teachable?

lukeprog1 Sep 2011 11:59 UTC

66 points

27 comments5 min readLW link

Was a PhD necessary to solve outstanding math problems?

DirectedEvolution10 Jul 2020 18:43 UTC

22 points

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[Link] Offense 101

Alejandro124 Oct 2012 21:28 UTC

45 points

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Numeracy neglect—A personal postmortem

vlad.proex27 Sep 2020 15:12 UTC

81 points

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Two More Things to Unlearn from School

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Jul 2007 17:45 UTC

142 points

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The irrelevance of test scores is greatly exaggerated

dynomight15 Apr 2021 14:15 UTC

111 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

(dynomight.net)

[Letter] Advice for High School #1

lsusr20 Apr 2021 4:09 UTC

91 points

28 comments4 min readLW link

Follow-up to Julia Wise on “Don’t Shoot The Dog”

Alex Flint1 May 2021 19:07 UTC

19 points

4 comments8 min readLW link

Academia as Company Hierarchy

Virgil Kurkjian9 May 2021 17:29 UTC

72 points

45 comments18 min readLW link

The homework assignment incentives, and why it’s now so extreme

Andrew Vlahos22 Jun 2021 4:19 UTC

22 points

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Gravity Turn

alkjash16 Aug 2021 19:20 UTC

213 points

21 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

[ACX Linkpost] Highlights From The Comments On Missing School

mike_hawke29 Aug 2021 8:01 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(astralcodexten.substack.com)

Thinking About College Funding

jefftk9 Sep 2021 19:20 UTC

17 points

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(www.jefftk.com)

Schools probably do do something

Yair Halberstadt26 Sep 2021 7:21 UTC

25 points

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[Question] Self-education best practices

Sean McAneny10 Nov 2021 17:12 UTC

12 points

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Education on My Homeworld

lsusr14 Nov 2021 10:16 UTC

37 points

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Time until graduation as a proxy for picking between (German) universities

Morpheus24 Jan 2022 18:27 UTC

10 points

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Bryan Caplan meets Socrates

Sam Enright5 Feb 2022 12:24 UTC

93 points

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[Question] Can you help me find this book?

mukashi2 Mar 2022 10:19 UTC

4 points

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Accounting For College Costs

johnswentworth1 Apr 2022 17:28 UTC

346 points

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Fact post: project-based learning

dominicq2 Jun 2022 20:18 UTC

11 points

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Grand Theft Education

Zvi31 Aug 2022 11:50 UTC

66 points

18 comments20 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

First we shape our social graph; then it shapes us

Henrik Karlsson7 Sep 2022 15:50 UTC

41 points

5 comments8 min readLW link

(escapingflatland.substack.com)

Weekly Non-Covid News #1 (10/13/22)

Zvi13 Oct 2022 15:40 UTC

52 points

16 comments16 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Is school good or bad?

tailcalled3 Dec 2022 13:14 UTC

10 points

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Why and How to Graduate Early [U.S.]

Tego29 Jan 2023 1:28 UTC

28 points

5 comments8 min readLW link

Russell Conjugations list & voting thread

Daniel Kokotajlo20 Feb 2023 6:39 UTC

20 points

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Grading on Word Count

niederman15 Mar 2023 19:17 UTC

13 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(maxniederman.com)

You are better at math (and alignment) than you think

trevor13 Oct 2022 3:07 UTC

47 points

7 comments22 min readLW link

(www.lesswrong.com)

Education 2.0 — A brand new education system

aryan15 Jul 2020 10:09 UTC

−8 points

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Bounds of Attention

squidious5 Apr 2018 22:53 UTC

26 points

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Calibrate your self-assessments

Scott Alexander9 Oct 2011 23:26 UTC

96 points

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Epistemic Viciousness

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Mar 2009 23:33 UTC

100 points

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Approval Extraction Advertised as Production

Benquo15 Dec 2019 14:51 UTC

82 points

39 comments19 min readLW link 3 reviews

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Cognito Mentoring: An advising service for intellectually curious students

JonahS31 Dec 2013 22:03 UTC

84 points

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Commentary On “The Abolition of Man”

Vaniver15 Jul 2019 18:56 UTC

64 points

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Problems in Education

ThinkOfTheChildren8 Apr 2013 21:29 UTC

92 points

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Being a teacher

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 14 Mar 2011 20:03 UTC

80 points

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Explicit Expectations when Teaching

Hazard4 Feb 2018 14:12 UTC

21 points

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Please Press “Record”

johnswentworth11 Mar 2020 23:56 UTC

48 points

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What is a School?

Zvi13 Mar 2020 22:00 UTC

51 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Teaching Ladders

alkjash24 Jan 2018 19:01 UTC

28 points

9 comments4 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Reading Papers in Undergrad

ryan_b9 Nov 2017 19:24 UTC

17 points

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Teaching the Unteachable

Eliezer Yudkowsky3 Mar 2009 23:14 UTC

53 points

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Drawing Less Wrong: An Introduction

Raemon13 Nov 2011 22:39 UTC

46 points

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The Lesson To Unlearn

Ben Pace8 Dec 2019 0:50 UTC

37 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

(paulgraham.com)

The Case for Education

SamuelKnoche14 Aug 2020 17:20 UTC

23 points

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The Best Educational Institution in the World

SamuelKnoche14 Aug 2020 17:18 UTC

39 points

13 comments9 min readLW link

Room and Board for People Self-Learning ML or Doing Independent ML Research

SamuelKnoche14 Aug 2020 17:19 UTC

7 points

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Stanford Intro to AI course to be taught for free online

Psy-Kosh30 Jul 2011 16:22 UTC

38 points

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Living By Your Own Strength

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 Dec 2008 0:37 UTC

42 points

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Rationality Games & Apps Brainstorming

lukeprog9 Jul 2012 3:04 UTC

42 points

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Valuable economics knowledge available, ironically, for free

Stuart_Armstrong18 Jul 2013 11:30 UTC

38 points

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Practical debiasing

crazy8820 Nov 2011 9:45 UTC

39 points

14 comments5 min readLW link

To Learn Critical Thinking, Study Critical Thinking

gwern7 Jul 2012 23:50 UTC

40 points

16 comments11 min readLW link

How to Teach Students to Not Guess the Teacher’s Password?

Petruchio4 Jan 2013 15:18 UTC

35 points

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Random advice: Teenage U.S. LW-ers should probably be taking more AP exams

HonoreDB7 Apr 2011 4:37 UTC

34 points

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Preschoolers learning to guess the teacher’s password [link]

Unnamed18 Mar 2011 4:13 UTC

34 points

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Guessing the Teacher’s Password

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 Aug 2007 3:40 UTC

242 points

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The Blue School

Voltairina16 Apr 2012 18:15 UTC

31 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Bogus Exam Questions

Donald Hobson28 Mar 2020 12:56 UTC

18 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

Deliberate Grad School

Academian4 Oct 2015 10:11 UTC

37 points

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{Math} A times tables memory.

aaq1 Dec 2019 15:40 UTC

19 points

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The Ancient God Who Rules High School

lifelonglearner5 Apr 2017 18:55 UTC

13 points

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(medium.com)

Request for advice: high school transferring

argella421 Mar 2016 22:27 UTC

12 points

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Should students be allowed to give good teachers a bonus?

DirectedEvolution2 Nov 2020 0:19 UTC

25 points

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Can we teach Rationality at the University of Reddit?

Lightwave20 Aug 2012 21:59 UTC

32 points

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Human capital or signaling? No, it’s about doing the Right Thing and acquiring karma

VipulNaik20 Apr 2014 21:04 UTC

35 points

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[Link] Why the kids don’t know no algebra

GLaDOS4 Jul 2012 10:29 UTC

30 points

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Help Reform A Philosophy Curriculum

JonathanLivengood8 Dec 2012 22:45 UTC

38 points

24 comments5 min readLW link

khan Academy—Rationality series?

Goobahman12 Dec 2011 1:54 UTC

23 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Link: Writing exercise closes the gender gap in university-level physics

Vladimir_Golovin27 Nov 2010 16:28 UTC

27 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Bayesian examination

Lê Nguyên Hoang9 Dec 2019 19:50 UTC

86 points

56 comments5 min readLW link

Something Was Wrong

Zvi5 Aug 2017 14:48 UTC

9 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Good brainteasers for children?

ejacob2 Mar 2021 6:44 UTC

12 points

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[Question] Asking questions to fulfill expectations

erkenbrand19 Mar 2021 2:27 UTC

3 points

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Some things I’ve learned in college

Aaron Bergman25 Mar 2021 21:30 UTC

22 points

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(aaronbergman.substack.com)

[Question] If individual performance is Pareto distributed, how should we reform education?

yhoiseth24 May 2021 12:22 UTC

25 points

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From Manchester to Beirut: The power of education to change lives

gareth26 Sep 2021 11:40 UTC

3 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(medium.com)

(Book Review) The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality

Xylitol7 Oct 2021 22:21 UTC

25 points

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Book Review: The End of Average

Vanilla_cabs14 Oct 2021 1:49 UTC

17 points

3 comments8 min readLW link

The World According to Dominic Cummings

Chris_Leong14 Apr 2020 5:05 UTC

67 points

13 comments7 min readLW link

AI Governance Fundamentals—Curriculum and Application

Mauricio30 Nov 2021 2:19 UTC

17 points

0 comments16 min readLW link

For and Against Lotteries in Elite University Admissions

Sam Enright12 Dec 2021 13:41 UTC

10 points

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School Daze

Zvi14 Jan 2022 13:50 UTC

50 points

6 comments17 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Books Worthy of Integration

Roven Skyfal20 Feb 2022 8:03 UTC

12 points

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Harms and possibilities of schooling

TsviBT22 Feb 2022 7:48 UTC

102 points

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Know of any randomised trials teaching debiasing in schools? Want to help review them, or would that review help your work?

MNoetel20 Mar 2022 4:52 UTC

29 points

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Reflections on a year of college

unoptimal25 May 2022 16:26 UTC

31 points

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Unforgivable

Novalis25 Jun 2022 20:57 UTC

−9 points

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(novalis.blog)

Cultivating And Destroying Agency

hath30 Jun 2022 3:59 UTC

88 points

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Most Ivy-smart students aren’t at Ivy-tier schools

Aaron Bergman7 Aug 2022 3:18 UTC

81 points

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(www.aaronbergman.net)

[Question] Education not meant for mass-consumption

Tolo24 Oct 2022 19:45 UTC

7 points

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[Question] Should I Pursue a PhD?

DragonGod6 Nov 2022 10:58 UTC

7 points

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Does ChatGPT’s performance warrant working on a tutor for children? [It’s time to take it to the lab.]

Bill Benzon19 Dec 2022 15:12 UTC

13 points

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(new-savanna.blogspot.com)

Proliferating Education

Haris Rashid20 Dec 2022 19:22 UTC

−1 points

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(www.harisrab.com)

Childhood Roundup #1

Zvi6 Jan 2023 13:00 UTC

82 points

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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Educating people about rationality: where are we?

plurple8 Mar 2023 1:59 UTC

5 points

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Will people be motivated to learn difficult disciplines and skills without economic incentive?

Roman Leventov20 Mar 2023 9:26 UTC

20 points

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