What is our best purpose? We need to be careful who and what we outsource our most important duties as parents to. We need to introduce our loved ones to an analog life.
Humboldt vs Prussian Education System
- 1806: Napoleon with amateurs decimated the professional soldiers charged with defending Germany at the Battle of Jena
- Fichte: Germany was not serious about strict education:
- Children would have to be trained through a new form of universal conditioning. They could no longer be trusted to their parents.
- Through forced schooling, everyone would learn that “work makes free” and working for the state, even laying down one’s life to ist command was THE GREATEST FREEDOM OF ALL. Hers in the genius of semantic redefinition lay the power to cloud mens’ minds, a power later packaged and sold by public relations pioneers Edward Bernays and IvyLee.
- The desired Prussian Mind:
- Obedient soldiers
- Obedient workers for factories, mines and farms
- Well subordinated civil servants
- Well subordinated clerks for industry
- Conforming thought in citizen
- National uniformity
AI Exec Order – K-12 and ALL Subject Matters
President Trump issued an executive order focused on advancing Artificial Intelligence education for American youth. The order aims to equip students with the skills and knowledge necessary to understand and contribute to the field of AI. It emphasizes the importance of AI literacy and training for the future workforce. The initiative seeks to promote federal investment and coordination in AI education programs across the country. This executive action underscores the government’s focus on preparing the next generation for an increasingly AI-driven world.
Enhancing Training for Educators on Artificial Intelligence . (a) Within 120 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of Education shall take steps to prioritize the use of AI in discretionary grant programs for teacher training authorized by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (Public Law 89-10), as amended, and Title II of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (Public Law 89-329), as amended, including for: (i) reducing time-intensive administrative tasks; (ii) improving teacher training and evaluation; (iii) providing professional development for all educators, so they can integrate the fundamentals of AI into all subject areas; and (iv) providing professional development in foundational computer science and AI, preparing educators to effectively teach AI in stand-alone computer science and other relevant courses. (b) Within 120 days of the date of this order, the Director of the NSF shall take steps to prioritize research on the use of AI in education. The Director of the NSF shall also utilize existing programs to create teacher training opportunities that help educators effectively integrate AI-based tools and modalities in classrooms. (c) Within 120 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of Agriculture shall take steps to prioritize research, extension, and education on the use of AI in formal and non-formal education through 4-H and the Cooperative Extension System.
Socrates Thought Writing Was Not A Good Technology
Socrates describes a “deep problem with writing”.
- Separation from the speaker: When a word is written down, it can be passed along and separated from its speaker.
- Inability to explain itself: A written text “can’t explain itself anymore”.
- Lack of examination: People often hear, repeat, and read words, phrases, and slogans without truly understanding them or examining their meaning. The conversation is the place where words are examined and connections are made or rejected.
- Impersonal nature: A significant critique Socrates has of writing is that “to everyone it gives the same speech”. A book “does not know how to hide or withhold or tailor specific ideas to people”.
Life backing up ideas: The fact that words come from a human adds a “new dimension”. Alcibiades in Plato’s Symposium felt shame when listening to Socrates because Socrates had “a life that backs up the ideas” and embodied the virtues he spoke of. This adds meaning that would be missing even if AI perfectly replicated semantic content.
Tacit knowledge and experience: Much of human knowledge is “primordially practical” and “inarticulable,” gained through “trying things out and experiencing the world and enjoying it and getting hurt by it” with “volition freely”. This “tacit dimension of knowledge” cradles explicit semantic knowledge, suggesting a human, experiential component to deep learning that AI might struggle to replicate.
When you look at the phrase “democratizing X”, as in democratizing the creation of art, or lowering the barriers to creating music, you see that the Tech Bro vanguards believe that we should hate the work we put into our hobbies, and therefore ALL problems should be solved by AI.
That’s quite dumb, but worse, it’s exceedingly dangerous. From the creator’s perspective, you have people of low skill and interest in your field of creativity who think everyone should do just what you can do, that there is greater value in everyone effortlessly achieving that than in acquiring skill, because music is just too hard. Or you have written the same words enough in your lifetime and the process of wordsmithing takes too much time, so as long as you have trained an AI model, and since you have really thought about the themes already, just outsource the refinement to AI. Have it derive a near perfect facsimile of your writing while you collect the clicks, views and likes. Because that’s the “smart” thing to do.
Telos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telos
Telos refer to the final cause of a natural organ or entity, or of human art. Telos is the root of the modern term teleology, the study of purposiveness or of objects with a view to their aims, purposes, or intentions
Techne
which is the rational method involved in producing an object or accomplishing a goal or objective. In the Theuth/Thamus myth, for instance, the section covering techne referred to telos and techne together. The two methods are, however, not mutually exclusive in principle.