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Life after AGI-created Utopia

Hello, I'm looking for research/writings/musings in whatever form, academic or literary, that philosophically explore what will become of life after the creation of AGI, assuming successful alignment.When all problems are solved, mainly the economic problem of scarcity and the need to work a la Keynes' "The Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren," and when we can have anything we might...

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There's a difference between the public school system and the education market (Khan Academy, Duolingo, Brilliant, etc.) Educational products are available to everyone to use. So, companies competing to make "their customers" the smartest is just whoever chooses to use their product, not some restricted class of people. Competition among companies is good when their products are available to all.
No, at least not at the start. The education industry needs competition, specifically competitive curriculums, where companies compete to make their customers the smartest with their products. Especially at the start, we need a competitive advantage in order to get a foothold to build better educational products.
Thanks Dave. Because they're disorganized and therefore can't be personalized. An alphabetical listing of all the courses you offer is not a good way of organizing knowledge for first-time learners to navigate. Companies should organize curriculums for their users - a series of courses you have to complete in the right order that build on one another toward the outer branches of specialized knowledge. That way, everyone can get a solid foundation of basic knowledge before learning more advanced topics.

Plus, lecture videos are boring and an obstacle to commonplace learning.

The industry needs innovation.

Waitlist for world's first personalized general education company

Hello everyone. I am Kyle Hogeboom, the founder of Summa (https://theeducationstartup.com), an education startup making humankind smarter.For you fellow nerds out there, we are making Asimov’s Encyclopedia Galactica real, our very own Encyclopedia Humanum, a summary of human knowledge that we can navigate like a map and learn from in a personalized way. Our goal is to universalize knowledge and...

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Hello everyone. I am Kyle Hogeboom, the founder of Summa, an education startup making humankind smarter.

For you fellow nerds out there, we are making Asimov’s Encyclopedia Galactica real, our very own Encyclopedia Humanum, a summary of human knowledge that we can navigate like a map and learn from in a personalized way. Our goal is to universalize knowledge and personalize learning so anyone can learn everything - because the only way to solve more problems create more culture is to have more ideas in the minds of more people.

Right now, we're in development mode...and a catch-22. To get seed funding to build the demo product, we need traction, but to get traction, we need a demo product. (I know, I know, what a terribly unique problem in the startup world.) So, we're releasing everything but and collecting names of those interested in being the first to try the revolution in education we've been waiting for. Just type in your name and help us launch this thing.

Summa is also hiring, so if you're interested in what we're doing, feel free to reach out through the website. In the meantime, keep on learning.

Thanks!

Ask HN: Mathematics and Organized Knowledge

For any ordered system, there can be a mathematical description of its structure and relationships.So, can human knowledge be organized into an ordered structure that can be used to statistically measure an individual person's state of knowledge? (A map of knowledge as a standard of measurement to evaluate a person's level of understanding)I'm aware of Knowledge Space Theory and Bayesian...

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Re:Mathematics and Organized Knowledge on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @09:14AM (#28524257)
Precisely! More accurate hiring means better output means a more prosperous economy and society.

Time to democratize knowledge.

Mathematics and Organized Knowledge

For any ordered system, there can be a mathematical description of its structure and relationships.So, can human knowledge be organized into an ordered structure that can be used to statistically measure an individual person's state of knowledge? (A map of knowledge as a standard of measurement to evaluate a person's level of understanding)I'm aware of Knowledge Space Theory and Bayesian...

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