Cornelius van Kloon

[Cornelius van Kloon @VanKloon]

@percolatable @xwanyex Ehh seems like all you need then is an ai routing layer that picks the right ai program for the task at hand. Which btw is probably similar to how our brains operate. Programs can always be stitched together!

[Cornelius van Kloon @VanKloon]

@karenvaites @NielsHoven I wonder if @NielsHoven has any data or detailed analysis here, because it changes Mentava's value prop by a lot. There's a big difference between "saves you, the parent, time spent teaching phonics" and "effective phonics curriculum requiring direct parent involvement".

[Cornelius van Kloon @VanKloon]

@karenvaites @NielsHoven I suspect the vast majority of <=4-year olds and probably most older kids also will require direct supervision while using it to benefit. It's very easy to just "tap through" without learning anything without enforcement. /2

[Cornelius van Kloon @VanKloon]

@xwanyex You do exactly this when you dismiss stuff like Uber and grocery delivery as "just not mattering". People value or are bothered by different things.

[Cornelius van Kloon @VanKloon]

@xwanyex Many, many people are functionally innumerate.

This explains widespread inability to manage student debt, the idea that Elon Musk could solve poverty if he donated his money, and fatties underestimating their calorie count by an order of magnitude.

[Cornelius van Kloon @VanKloon]

@xwanyex Agree with most of your takes, but your claims about what is and isn't objectively "important" sound like Bernie Sanders and every other retarded communist.

You talk about leftists not understanding markets, but solving for "importance" is one of the key functions of markets!

[Cornelius van Kloon @VanKloon]

@VDAREJamesK It actually does provide such a moral framework though, and you spelled out yourself. Hostile and clannish outsiders have no respect for law/contracts/etc. So straightforwardly, they should be kept out.

The problem is a spiritual self-doubt and reverence for the Noble Savage.

[Cornelius van Kloon @VanKloon]

@rscheipe @ramez Good for you, but huge numbers of people struggle to exercise and would love to do just the minimum for health benefits.

[Cornelius van Kloon @VanKloon]

@kaimicahmills We should do this, but that image is terrible marketing for the idea.

[Cornelius van Kloon @VanKloon]

@jaredrfrancis @eduleadership Right, because school is a load-bearing pillar of modern society because it provides childcare during the workday.

That's a very real problem but there's no reason at all it needs to be solved by "school" per Justin's definition.

[Cornelius van Kloon @VanKloon]

@eduleadership "hyper-individualistic" here is doing a lot of work.

Your preferred model used to be an economic necessity. It no longer is. In light of these developments, insisting we continue to adhere to the one instructor/many kids model might be called "hyper-communistic".

[Cornelius van Kloon @VanKloon]

@CivicRealist @EPoe187 @SwipeWright Race isn't a characteristic of an individual?

In any case, individual characteristics are mostly informative because they place the individual in a group. "X skipped college" is interesting because of patterns in behavior of people who skipped college. The same is true of race.

[Cornelius van Kloon @VanKloon]

@CivicRealist @EPoe187 @SwipeWright "race" is a variable that carries information about a person's likely temperament and proclivities, i.e. "content of character", same as occupation, professional record, criminal record, native culture, etc. Refusing to consider race is just a dogmatic religious prohibition.

[Cornelius van Kloon @VanKloon]

@squiggle888 @minordissent Wtf? 4-year-olds begging Dad to play is standard, not "humiliating". "Dad be the monster!" "Dad pretend I'm a unicorn!" If you say not now, they might beg for a while, just like they beg for toys in the gift shop.

Totally normal stuff. Insane what ppl are reading into this.

[Cornelius van Kloon @VanKloon]

@DanaPalubiak "Real reading research" is basically fake and ideological. It's how we ended up with "three-cueing" being taught nation wide.

The entire official literacy education apparatus can likely be beaten by one practical-minded person applying common sense.

[Cornelius van Kloon @VanKloon]

@DadGeezer @flowidealism There is no "correct" level of mathematical understanding for a given level of "psychosocial development". The standards of American schools are the product of bureaucratic constraint, not nature.

[Cornelius van Kloon @VanKloon]

@misfitpatriot @ComicDaveSmith You misunderstand his base. I think they'll be very happy. Rational critics of Israel who acknowledge its history of assassinations and false flags are only harmed by retards who leap to baseless conclusions.

[Cornelius van Kloon @VanKloon]

@xwanyex "The sovereign is he who defines the null hypothesis." - Yarvin (I think)