I was kinda nodding along most of the time thinking okay, yeah cool, tracking, but a couple things made me feel Andrey was less credible.
The weirdest, non-realistic take is that you can’t give touchscreens devices to a kid until they are 14. If you only give your kids personal access to emergent / latest technology when they are 4 years from being an adult, they will lag behind their tech savvy peers, which can affect educational and career opportunities in a competitive world, not to mention social conformity pressures.
I also thought he was being dismissive of what he refers to as “snowflake culture.” I feel that I don’t have to agree with “the snowflakes” and still understand their point that not everything is as simple and straightforward as the status quo may make you think. For example the 13/50 meme. These days some use it for undocumented migrant / illegal aliens, but it is mostly attributed to “black people are only 13% of the population but commit 50% of the crime.” There are so many rebuttals that clarify the inaccuracy of this propagandizing meme, as well solid statistics that show how some high rates can be explained outside of just being plainly racist against black people. So yeah not everyone successful is because of real merit, and by and large, I’m not talking about snowflakes ❄️
Thinking using touchscreens as a kid give you any advantage is what I think is non-realistic. We are becoming less tech savvy no more. If Andrey's framework is somewhat accurate, which I think it is, then being wired to receive delayed reward is what will separate skillful workers in the future from those that are not. Learning how to use a touch screen device is easy for someone who learned how to learn.
I agree - I teach at a university and have noticed many of my “digital native” students don’t understand computer basics like creating folders for file-saving. They will re-download the same document 10 times, because they don’t know how to find it on their device. I didn’t have a touchscreen device until I was 14/15, and am much more “digitally literate” than my freshmen students who have been using touchscreen smart devices their entire lives. I feel the same way about those who say we need to expose kids to GenAI early, lest they be “left behind.” Large language models are not hard to figure out. I imagine exposure to the sycophantic “easy button” machine from small childhood will ironically make it harder for them to use AI in a smart or creative way.
Okay well try it on your own kid. Do you have one and experience with withholding tech until 14? His framework is hypothetical and I don’t see any evidence of it in practice at a large scale
I was kinda nodding along most of the time thinking okay, yeah cool, tracking, but a couple things made me feel Andrey was less credible.
The weirdest, non-realistic take is that you can’t give touchscreens devices to a kid until they are 14. If you only give your kids personal access to emergent / latest technology when they are 4 years from being an adult, they will lag behind their tech savvy peers, which can affect educational and career opportunities in a competitive world, not to mention social conformity pressures.
I also thought he was being dismissive of what he refers to as “snowflake culture.” I feel that I don’t have to agree with “the snowflakes” and still understand their point that not everything is as simple and straightforward as the status quo may make you think. For example the 13/50 meme. These days some use it for undocumented migrant / illegal aliens, but it is mostly attributed to “black people are only 13% of the population but commit 50% of the crime.” There are so many rebuttals that clarify the inaccuracy of this propagandizing meme, as well solid statistics that show how some high rates can be explained outside of just being plainly racist against black people. So yeah not everyone successful is because of real merit, and by and large, I’m not talking about snowflakes ❄️
Thinking using touchscreens as a kid give you any advantage is what I think is non-realistic. We are becoming less tech savvy no more. If Andrey's framework is somewhat accurate, which I think it is, then being wired to receive delayed reward is what will separate skillful workers in the future from those that are not. Learning how to use a touch screen device is easy for someone who learned how to learn.
I agree - I teach at a university and have noticed many of my “digital native” students don’t understand computer basics like creating folders for file-saving. They will re-download the same document 10 times, because they don’t know how to find it on their device. I didn’t have a touchscreen device until I was 14/15, and am much more “digitally literate” than my freshmen students who have been using touchscreen smart devices their entire lives. I feel the same way about those who say we need to expose kids to GenAI early, lest they be “left behind.” Large language models are not hard to figure out. I imagine exposure to the sycophantic “easy button” machine from small childhood will ironically make it harder for them to use AI in a smart or creative way.
I think that's sharp. I've long joked that my kid can use Linux as soon as he's ready.
Okay well try it on your own kid. Do you have one and experience with withholding tech until 14? His framework is hypothetical and I don’t see any evidence of it in practice at a large scale
Here you can listen to Marshall McLuhan himself -- now a "digital spirit presence" on YouTube -- speaking to us from the year 1967...
Part 1: https://youtu.be/c7TKg2GGkZ0
Part 2: https://youtu.be/wfDS5YsasYw