Another way to look at human intelligence is to assume that it is a property of the whole humanity, but much less of individual humans. If Einstein was born in a forrest as a feral child, he will not be able to demonstrate much of his intelligence. Only because he got special training he was able to built his special relativity theory as incrementation of already existing theories.
If I take this literally, it should be relatively simple to generate hundreds of Einsteins or hundreds of John von Neumanns. I mean, taking hundred random healthy kids and giving them best education, that should be easily within powers of any greater country.
Actually, any billionaire could easily do it, and there could even be a financial incentive for him to do: offer these new Einsteins to work for you when they finish their studies. (They would probably be happy to work along the other Einsteins.)
Polgár was an awesome parent, but I believe he seriously underestimated (in fact, completely dismissed) the effect of IQ. He should have checked his genetic privilege. On the other hand, seems like the “hundred Einsteins” experiment could still work if you’d start with kids over e.g. IQ 130 (or kids of parents with high IQ, so you can start the interventions soon without worrying about measuring IQ at very young age). Two percents of population, that’s still a lot, in absolute numbers.
Unfortunately, I am not a billionaire, so my enthusiasm about this project is irrelevant.
I try and imagine what I’d have been like born into another life. How I’d act, what I’d think without various events in my life.
The exposure to ideas at a young age was a big factor in my brain me thinks… The example that’s being kicking around in my head (enough for me to consider looking into this shortform thingy the cool kids seem to have..)
Kids should see the stars.
Seeing the real night sky blew my mind, another level of awareness and thinking at a very young age.
I do wonder, how often do people see the stars these days?
What level of light pollution disconnects and isolates us from the universe just out there?
The curiosity stage should be stuffed, kids are sponges that can grasp a lot but they need the exposure. … basic physics whilst finger-painting, basic chemistry when baking, anatomy pyjamas! Laying the building blocks. Find a kid’s interests, their links to learning more about the world.
The opportunity for the creation of truly great (free access) educational material to ‘teach the world’ excites me, more understanding = more progress in my mind.
Another way to look at human intelligence is to assume that it is a property of the whole humanity, but much less of individual humans. If Einstein was born in a forrest as a feral child, he will not be able to demonstrate much of his intelligence. Only because he got special training he was able to built his special relativity theory as incrementation of already existing theories.
If I take this literally, it should be relatively simple to generate hundreds of Einsteins or hundreds of John von Neumanns. I mean, taking hundred random healthy kids and giving them best education, that should be easily within powers of any greater country.
Actually, any billionaire could easily do it, and there could even be a financial incentive for him to do: offer these new Einsteins to work for you when they finish their studies. (They would probably be happy to work along the other Einsteins.)
This was tested in the chess field. A family decided to teach their kids chess from early childhood and created three grandmasters (Plogar sisters) https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/articles/200507/the-grandmaster-experiment (But not one Kasparov, so some variability of personal capabilities obviously exists.)
Polgár was an awesome parent, but I believe he seriously underestimated (in fact, completely dismissed) the effect of IQ. He should have checked his genetic privilege. On the other hand, seems like the “hundred Einsteins” experiment could still work if you’d start with kids over e.g. IQ 130 (or kids of parents with high IQ, so you can start the interventions soon without worrying about measuring IQ at very young age). Two percents of population, that’s still a lot, in absolute numbers.
Unfortunately, I am not a billionaire, so my enthusiasm about this project is irrelevant.
Yes, they had Hungarian-Jewish ancestry which is known to produce many genius minds called the Martians.
I try and imagine what I’d have been like born into another life. How I’d act, what I’d think without various events in my life.
The exposure to ideas at a young age was a big factor in my brain me thinks… The example that’s being kicking around in my head (enough for me to consider looking into this shortform thingy the cool kids seem to have..)
Kids should see the stars.
Seeing the real night sky blew my mind, another level of awareness and thinking at a very young age.
I do wonder, how often do people see the stars these days?
What level of light pollution disconnects and isolates us from the universe just out there?
The curiosity stage should be stuffed, kids are sponges that can grasp a lot but they need the exposure. … basic physics whilst finger-painting, basic chemistry when baking, anatomy pyjamas! Laying the building blocks. Find a kid’s interests, their links to learning more about the world.
The opportunity for the creation of truly great (free access) educational material to ‘teach the world’ excites me, more understanding = more progress in my mind.