{"id":380,"date":"2025-03-04T12:18:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T18:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/technoligarch.com\/?p=380"},"modified":"2025-03-05T09:20:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T15:20:34","slug":"the-future-of-education-scaling-human-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technoligarch.com\/?p=380","title":{"rendered":"The future of education (scaling human creativity)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<p class=\"\">Is there something about consciousness that gives humans the ability to have&nbsp;<em>creative<\/em> breakthroughs, that can&#8217;t be captured (or simulated) by AI? If there isn&#8217;t, then AGI\/ASI should &#8220;retire&#8221; us, eventually. If there is, what should we do?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the discovery of new knowledge is simply the extension and repurposing of existing knowledge. A dark room that endlessly reveals information wherever we shine light.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">But what if it isn&#8217;t? What if strands of knowledge are discontinuous, and consciousness has some salient property that enables unpredictable &#8220;leaps&#8221; of insight allowing us to enter new rooms?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Then, only Einstein, and not his AI equivalent, can cross the bridge from the frontiers of classical physics to general relativity. We can have endless brute-force computation &#8220;colouring in the map&#8221; of <em>known<\/em>&nbsp;knowledge, but venturing beyond is limited to humans.<\/p>\n<p>In this world, the most valuable use of AI would be to maximize the number of humans at the frontier of knowledge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">How do we maximize human-creativity-tokens at the edges of the knowledge map?<\/p>\n<ol class=\"\">\n<li>AI helps humans identify the things they are most passionate about<\/li>\n<li>AI creates hyper-personalized roadmaps optimizing learning paths to the frontier of chosen field(s)<\/li>\n<li>AI has near-perfect understanding of a human&#8217;s knowledge and tailors curriculums accordingly<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>You can imagine cohorts of humans, all on slightly different learning plans but with a shared mission, perhaps advancing biotechnology or exploring a genre of music, going through these journeys together.<\/p>\n<p>We effectively maximize the number of potential Einsteins in every field, and capture the full potential of the scarcest resource: human creativity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This feels like the future of education.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there something about consciousness that gives humans the ability to have&nbsp;creative breakthroughs, that can&#8217;t be captured (or simulated) by AI? If there isn&#8217;t, then AGI\/ASI should &#8220;retire&#8221; us, eventually. If there is, what should &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technoligarch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technoligarch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technoligarch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technoligarch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technoligarch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/technoligarch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403,"href":"https:\/\/technoligarch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions\/403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technoligarch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technoligarch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technoligarch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}