Jeff Feiwell
@hyper
I think the way to reform university is to create the 10x competitor. The be so good they can’t ignore you option What this unblocks is the need for accreditation which is a total racket and the single variable blocking competition Create a school that produces total studs,employers won’t care about accreditation
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Elite universities are selling status. That takes time to build. Most talented young people seeking status don't want to be in the generation of students who don't get the status. Thiel Fellowship and YC are more interesting competitors since they have crossed the status threshold.
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Jeff Feiwell
@hyper
Right. Proven by the quality of the graduates. I think there’s plenty of room to improve from entrance to exit West Point meets School of Athens
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
But if I'm a top 1% talented 18 yo and I have opportunity to go to elite university that guarantees increase in status vs. bet on some new thing, it needs to have an appropriate payoff relative to the risk. This is why Thiel and YC work. The money and shortcut into an elite network.
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Claus Wilke
@clauswilke
If "universities are broken" (I don't think so, but you could say I'm biased) then the question is not what to do with the top 1% talented 18 yo but with the other 49% that would currently go to college. Thiel and YC are great but they serve minuscule numbers of people. They are also quite expensive per person.
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Claus Wilke
@clauswilke
And I'm not arguing there's nothing to improve in university, but the magical 10x educational institution doesn't exist. Quality education is expensive. Maybe in the future we can use AI to get some cost reductions, but then why do you think universities wouldn't use those same tools also?
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Claus Wilke
@clauswilke
Look what happened with MOOCs a few years back. Everybody thought this is it, they will replace college. And what happened? First, all major universities jumped on the concept and offered their own. And second, it is now quite clear that MOOCs don't do as much as was originally expected.
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