We are developing the social individualist meta-context for the future. From the very serious to the extremely frivolous... lets see what is on the mind of the Samizdata people.
Samizdata, derived from Samizdat /n. - a system of clandestine publication of banned literature in the USSR [Russ.,= self-publishing house]
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Samizdata quote of the day – in praise of aristocratic tutoring Today, tutoring is seen mostly as a corrective to failures within the bureaucratic structures of education, like an intervention to help out a course, grade, or test. In general, those doing well in school don’t get tutoring—it’s like we’re applying the secret genius sauce solely to the kids who aren’t going to be geniuses.
– Erik Hoel
Interesting essay, well worth reading the whole thing.
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Who Are We? The Samizdata people are a bunch of sinister and heavily armed globalist illuminati who seek to infect the entire world with the values of personal liberty and several property. Amongst our many crimes is a sense of humour and the intermittent use of British spelling.
We are also a varied group made up of social individualists, classical liberals, whigs, libertarians, extropians, futurists, ‘Porcupines’, Karl Popper fetishists, recovering neo-conservatives, crazed Ayn Rand worshipers, over-caffeinated Virginia Postrel devotees, witty Frédéric Bastiat wannabes, cypherpunks, minarchists, kritarchists and wild-eyed anarcho-capitalists from Britain, North America, Australia and Europe.
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I tend to stand in awe of those who are responsible for designing and producing our modern tech. My phone, my sports watch, my digital piano, movie and music streaming. There must be some exceptionally clever people working away to make this stuff happen. Genius level? I’m not sure, but certainly pretty clever.
I’m not sure I would include Karl Marx among that list of genius minds. A very original thinker certainly but also very wrong and responsible for an incalculable amount of human misery.
The Rational Optimist substack has articles on how AI education programs can act as private tutor for any child. Makes it sound wonderful. https://rationaloptimistsociety.substack.com/p/why-im-obsessed-with-ai-schooling
It could be a real game changer, and surely can’t be more subversive than current schooling, especially with awake parents watching what it shows the kids.