Unwitting cult leaders
An insight that I’d kind of already had, but which this interview with Michael Taft (relevant section starts at about 32 minutes) helped crystallize: We tend to think of a “cult leader” as someone who intentionally sets out to create a cult. But most cult-like things probably don’t form like that. A lot of people feel a strong innate desire to be in a cult. In the podcast,...
Read MoreVideogames will revolutionize school (not necessarily the way you think)
A lot of the hype around educational games centers around "gamification", and using game techniques to make the boring drilling of facts into something more fun. Which would be a definite improvement, but I don't think that it's ambitious enough.
Read MoreWhy care about artificial intelligence?
So, AI might be developed within our lifetime, but why should anybody care? True artificial intelligence might actually be the number one thing in the world you should care about.
Read MoreWhy I’m considering a career in educational games
Given enough time, we could replace our whole educational system with almost nothing but games.
Read MoreYou can validly be seen and validated by a chatbot
There’s a common sentiment saying that a chatbot can’t really make you feel seen or validated. As chatbots are (presumably) not sentient, they can’t see you and thus can’t make you seen either. Or if they do, it is somehow fake and it’s bad that you feel that way. So let me tell you about ways in which Claude Sonnet makes me feel seen, and how I think those are...
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