Difference between revisions of "How mental sandboxes can help humanity reach new heights (YouTube Content)"

Jump to navigation Jump to search

How mental sandboxes can help humanity reach new heights (YouTube Content) (view source)

Revision as of 21:30, 22 March 2021

1,207 bytes removed ,  21:30, 22 March 2021
no edit summary
(Created page with "{{subst::Genius Is Not about Excelling at Something - It’s about Doing Things Differently (YouTube Content)}}")
 
Line 1: Line 1:
{{InfoboxAppearance
{{InfoboxAppearance
|title=Genius Is Not about Excelling at Something—It's about Doing Things Differently
|title=How 'mental sandboxes' can help humanity reach new heights
|image=
|image=[[File:How Mental Sandboxes Cover.jpg]]
|host=
|host=
|guests=[[Eric Weinstein]]
|guests=[[Eric Weinstein]]
|length=00:05:22
|length=00:04:23
|releasedate=4 May 2017
|releasedate=11 May 2017
|youtubedate=
|youtubedate=
|customlabel1=
|customlabel1=
Line 16: Line 16:
|customdata4=
|customdata4=
|link1title=YouTube
|link1title=YouTube
|link1=[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzdLBGPidAM Watch]
|link1=[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eydQmYWaKBE Watch]
|link2title=Portal Blog
|link2title=Portal Blog
|link2=[https://theportal.group/genius-is-not-about-excelling-at-something-its-about-doing-things-differently/ Read]
|link2=[https://theportal.group/embrace-contradictory-ideas-to-reach-new-intellectual-heights/ Read]
|link3title=
|link3title=
|link3=
|link3=
|link4title=
|link4title=
|link4=
|link4=
|prev=On Fake News, Trump, and the Mathematical Mind - Eric Weinstein (YouTube Content)
|prev=Genius Is Not about Excelling at Something - It’s about Doing Things Differently (YouTube Content)
|next=How mental sandboxes can help humanity reach new heights (YouTube Content)
|next=AI Can Now Self-Reproduce - Should Humans Be Worried (YouTube Content)
}}
}}


{{Stub}}
{{Stub}}


'''Genius Is Not about Excelling at Something—It's about Doing Things Differently''' was an video with [[Eric Weinstein]] on Big Think.
'''How 'mental sandboxes' can help humanity reach new heights''' was a video with [[Eric Weinstein]] on Big Think.


{{#widget:YouTube|id=EzdLBGPidAM}}
{{#widget:YouTube|id=eydQmYWaKBE}}


== Description ==
== Description ==
We want our surgeons to be excellent. We want our classical music performers to be excellent. But do we really want excellence everywhere? This is the provocative line of thought economist and mathematician Eric Weinstein is currently chasing. We've figured out how to reliably teach excellence, which is useful — but there is a trade-off. Individuals and education institutions become hyper-focused on cutting variant individuals to a certain shape, pushing them into a mold so they can passably imitate the "excellent" population, but not really perform. "The key question is: who are these high-variance individuals? Why are our schools filled with dyslexics? Why are there so many kids diagnosed with ADHD? My claim is these are giant underserved populations who are not meant for the excellence model." To that end, Weinstein suggests that the label of 'learning disabled' is severely misguided. Perhaps we should call this phenomenon what it more accurately is: a teaching disability. How much genius is squandered by muting the strengths of these populations?


 
Eric Weinstein is a mathematician, economist and managing director of Thiel Capital.In a recent interview with Rebel Wisdom, Weinstein spoke about the origins of the Intellectual Dark Web, and his theory of how our institutions are plagued by an "embedded growth obligation." Disagreeable people, Weinstein says, could help institutions correct themselves.
ERIC WEINSTEIN:
 
Eric Weinstein is an American mathematician and economist. He earned his Ph.D in mathematical physics from Harvard University in 1992, is a research fellow at the Mathematical Institute of Oxford University, and is a managing director of Thiel Capital in San Francisco. He has published works and is an expert speaker on a range of topics including economics, immigration, elite labor, mitigating financial risk and incentivizing of creative risks in the hard sciences.  


== Transcript ==
== Transcript ==
Retrieved from ‘https://old.theportal.wiki/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/10189’

Navigation menu