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1/ In crypto, I regularly meet teenagers, 16-year-olds who know "too much." They understand things about the global economy, for example, that they have no business knowing. Some are quite literally on par with 60-year-olds who've worked in finance their entire lives. Or they're experts on cars, or rocket telemetry, or metaphysics. It's jarring AF. And it's all thanks to the internet (YouTube and podcasts in particular). Age no longer matters. We've flattened the arena of minds! And now, AI is about to explode everything we thought we knew about learning. When I look back at my own childhood and learning journey, I realize I grew up in a sort of dark ages for knowledge. We had to physically go places, real places: libraries, conferences, summer camps, bookstores, to find shards information at the very forefront of thought. (Sometimes, we even... 👇
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2/ (Sometimes, we even wrote letters on paper and sent them to our favorite [authors, thinkers, scientists, professors] and waited weeks or months for replies.)
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3/ Everything you learned was caked in blood and sweat and mucus. In a lot of ways, we were like lonely monks copying manuscripts by candlelight.
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4/ We learned what we had the drive and patience and mad flickering passion to learn. Now, my kids are showing me how much crazier things are going to get...
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5/ One example: they love asking Claude for drawing prompts. Then, they force me to photograph their drawings and upload them to Claude for feedback (example at the top of this article).
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6/ Claude praises their work like it's Leonardo-level. Then, he/she/it offers them a few lines of criticism/suggestions on how to make the work even better.
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7/ The same words from my human mouth would crush them. But from AI? They lap up that constructive criticism and grow from it. I'm not sure why that's the case?
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8/ I presume it's because there are too many subconscious processes at work when we take information in from other humans (and in particular from our parents).
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