One of the things I've had to do for my next book is imagine how schools could be better.
One of the core improvements we'd have to see is people have to accept that school has to be hard, and people are going to flunk out or drop out if they don't make the grade. School needs to be hard, and it needs to be structured to produce great men with skills, not people with pieces of paper saying they have skills.
I don't just mean university, either. The fact that you need a university degree for jobs that don't have anything to do with a university education is caused by wasting kids time and everyone's money at the elementary and high school level.
People focus on AI, but reality is there's a sort of fantasy where westerners aren't competing with the rest of the world. You can hire people from parts of Africa or Asia for much less than the cost of a GPU, and that's the lowest common denominator entry level employees need to compete with.
Because we've mismanaged global civilization so badly, we're already on a path to global population collapse as bad as the black death. Things will be much harder than today in a few decades as a result, and nobody seems to realize it yet. The positive part of demographic collapse is that there's a potential for great improvements to the power and material conditions of the working class. It happened in the past after the black death and the world wars, it could happen again. When there's so many fewer people there's more opportunities for who's left -- AI or not.
One of the core improvements we'd have to see is people have to accept that school has to be hard, and people are going to flunk out or drop out if they don't make the grade. School needs to be hard, and it needs to be structured to produce great men with skills, not people with pieces of paper saying they have skills.
I don't just mean university, either. The fact that you need a university degree for jobs that don't have anything to do with a university education is caused by wasting kids time and everyone's money at the elementary and high school level.
People focus on AI, but reality is there's a sort of fantasy where westerners aren't competing with the rest of the world. You can hire people from parts of Africa or Asia for much less than the cost of a GPU, and that's the lowest common denominator entry level employees need to compete with.
Because we've mismanaged global civilization so badly, we're already on a path to global population collapse as bad as the black death. Things will be much harder than today in a few decades as a result, and nobody seems to realize it yet. The positive part of demographic collapse is that there's a potential for great improvements to the power and material conditions of the working class. It happened in the past after the black death and the world wars, it could happen again. When there's so many fewer people there's more opportunities for who's left -- AI or not.
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