1) One-on-one tutoring, which is generally considered effective but doesn’t scale very well 2) Video games, which are very effective at inspiring people to seek mastery of, and at teaching, difficult skills 3) Whatever we fantasize about having.
Everyones. Compared to what it would be if people had some very basic degree of rationality. Think along the lines of “all it’d take for the world to be like dath ilan would be a little bit of sense, nothing extraordinary”.
Edit: a key part of that statement was “I’ll indulge myself: ”. I don’t know everything about how it works so I can’t really be too confident, but I strongly suspect that what I said about “what it would be if people had some very basic degree of rationality” is true. And that frustrates me, so I indulged myself a bit and used strong language. Sometimes strong language is unproductive and uncivil, but I sensed that it was useful here to better communicate my point.
You know that dath ilan has been criticised, right?
That would be difficult to know for most people reading the Tumblr version, inasmuch as most of the harshest criticism I saw was on the LW version, which has since been deleted: http://lesswrong.com/lw/jzr/my_april_fools_day_confession/ One would have to know there was a LW post (which is mentioned nowhere in the Tumblr version, and Tumblr chooses to show mostly just upvotes on stuff, so don’t go looking there for criticism), pluck the URL out of the ether somehow (I had to pull it out of IRC logs), hope there’s an IA capture (which luckily, there is), and look it up (after all that I’m not sure how complete that version is, since the next IA capture is days later when the page—and its comments—have been deleted).
Whose education system? Compared to what?
Compared to:
1) One-on-one tutoring, which is generally considered effective but doesn’t scale very well
2) Video games, which are very effective at inspiring people to seek mastery of, and at teaching, difficult skills
3) Whatever we fantasize about having.
Everyones. Compared to what it would be if people had some very basic degree of rationality. Think along the lines of “all it’d take for the world to be like dath ilan would be a little bit of sense, nothing extraordinary”.
Edit: a key part of that statement was “I’ll indulge myself: ”. I don’t know everything about how it works so I can’t really be too confident, but I strongly suspect that what I said about “what it would be if people had some very basic degree of rationality” is true. And that frustrates me, so I indulged myself a bit and used strong language. Sometimes strong language is unproductive and uncivil, but I sensed that it was useful here to better communicate my point.
You know that dath ilan has been criticised, right?
Here’s a thing: problems often seem easier to solve to non experts than to experts, because the experts are aware of all the gotchas.
That would be difficult to know for most people reading the Tumblr version, inasmuch as most of the harshest criticism I saw was on the LW version, which has since been deleted: http://lesswrong.com/lw/jzr/my_april_fools_day_confession/ One would have to know there was a LW post (which is mentioned nowhere in the Tumblr version, and Tumblr chooses to show mostly just upvotes on stuff, so don’t go looking there for criticism), pluck the URL out of the ether somehow (I had to pull it out of IRC logs), hope there’s an IA capture (which luckily, there is), and look it up (after all that I’m not sure how complete that version is, since the next IA capture is days later when the page—and its comments—have been deleted).
And private educators can teach more effectively than public educators...because they can spend more money.
The people who run public education systems aren’t irrational, just cash strapped.
Dath ilan is all about gold plating mousetraps...never mind the cost/benefit ratios, look how shiny it is.