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Grant Sanderson

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You might imagine the opposite, given that the experience of a university student is often that the expert teaching them is not necessarily the best explainer of that topic, because they’re so spoiled by their expertise.

“You might imagine the opposite, given that the experience of a university student is often that the expert teaching them is not necessarily the best explainer of that topic, because they’re so spoiled by their expertise.”
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Grant Sanderson
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast

02 / evaluation

You’ve got an institution around that, and a whole bureaucracy acting as a proxy for what we think that public good is, with a whole song and dance around how to make them correctly predict that your progress will be in the spirit of that funding.

“You’ve got an institution around that, and a whole bureaucracy acting as a proxy for what we think that public good is, with a whole song and dance around how to make them correctly predict that your progress will be in the spirit of that funding.”
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Grant Sanderson
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast

03 / evaluation

With the whole AI and math project underway, as you point out, one of the reasons it’s interesting at all is that there’s a spiky frontier to AI, and math is just right there in one of the spikes. But there’s a fractal nature to that spikiness, because when you zoom into the specific progress within math, you have some things that are a lot easier than others.

“With the whole AI and math project underway, as you point out, one of the reasons it’s interesting at all is that there’s a spiky frontier to AI, and math is just right there in one of the spikes. But there’s a fractal nature to that spikiness, because when you zoom into the specific progress within math, you have some things that are a lot easier than others.”
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Grant Sanderson
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast

04 / evaluation

I don't know if this answers your question, but I would reemphasize that what's probably most important to getting people to actually learn something is not the explanation or the quality of explanations available because since the printing press that has not been true.

“I don't know if this answers your question, but I would reemphasize that what's probably most important to getting people to actually learn something is not the explanation or the quality of explanations available because since the printing press that has not been true.”
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Grant Sanderson
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast

05 / evaluation

If I try to reflect on my own history with what I'm doing now I think I didn't appreciate early on how much potential energy I had simply from being a student in college where there's just a bunch of ways of thinking about things, or empathy with new learners, or just cool concepts right?

“If I try to reflect on my own history with what I'm doing now I think I didn't appreciate early on how much potential energy I had simply from being a student in college where there's just a bunch of ways of thinking about things, or empathy with new learners, or just cool concepts right?”
Speaker
Grant Sanderson
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast

06 / evaluation

In so far as it doesn't have more of an impact or more of a reach it's maybe just because people don't know about it or don't have an easy means of accessing something that recommends to them like the really good innovations happening in the world of textual explanations in the way that youtube has this recommending engine that tries its hardest to get more of these things in front of people.

“In so far as it doesn't have more of an impact or more of a reach it's maybe just because people don't know about it or don't have an easy means of accessing something that recommends to them like the really good innovations happening in the world of textual explanations in the way that youtube has this recommending engine that tries its hardest to get more of these things in front of people.”
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Grant Sanderson
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast

07 / evaluation

I'm pretty sure the abstract idea of a number is important for all of us but I don't think it's immediately obvious. It's more that it shapes the way we think, I'm not sure if it actually changes the way we live.

“I'm pretty sure the abstract idea of a number is important for all of us but I don't think it's immediately obvious. It's more that it shapes the way we think, I'm not sure if it actually changes the way we live.”
Speaker
Grant Sanderson
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast
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