Edwin Vlems

Inbound Marketing/Recruitment Specialist en Adviseur voor B2B, gespecialiseerd in content, employee advocacy en social media.

[Superman @thesupermannx]

Researchers proved AI has deleted every reason universities exist.

Harvard University ran a controlled experiment pitting a custom AI against their own top-tier classrooms.

And the results are going to collapse the higher education bubble.

They took 194 undergraduates and split them up.

One group learned physics in one of Harvard’s best hands-on, active-learning physical classrooms. Group work. Instructor support. The premium university experience.

The other group went home and learned the exact same material with an AI tutor.

The AI didn't just win. It embarrassed the institution.

Students using the AI learned more than twice as much as the students in the elite Harvard classroom.

They scored 30% higher on the final assessment.

And they did it in less time.

Let that sink in.

A piece of software sitting on a laptop outperformed a world-class faculty in one of the most elite learning environments on Earth.

Universities have always justified their exorbitant tuition with two things: access to elite knowledge and the physical classroom experience.

This study just proved both of those moats are gone.

When software can teach you complex physics twice as well as a $60,000-a-year institution, the math of higher education breaks permanently.

The AI didn't just give the students answers. It used strict pedagogical guardrails. It guided. It questioned. It forced the students to do the cognitive work.

It offered perfect, one-to-one tutoring, personalized to the exact moment a student misunderstood a concept.

That level of attention is mathematically impossible to scale in a physical lecture hall.

For a thousand years, the university was the only place to get a premium education.

Now, it’s the bottleneck.

If AI can double your learning speed for a fraction of the cost, what exactly are students taking on decades of debt to pay for?

[Andrew Jiang @andrewjiang]

Had opus 5.5 make a video predicting the next 50 years

I'm optimistic that the end will be beautiful, but the transition will be a little rough

[Edwin Vlems @EVlems]

@sciencegirl @vulpes2009 Plus a bit of training with a stool with a special dog mouth piece on top

[Edwin Vlems @EVlems]

@Gemini_Notebook Big fan from Holland here! Question: when will cinematic video be available for other languages? I have the paid version.

[Edwin Vlems @EVlems]

@RaminNasibov @elonmusk Lords of Midnight (ZX Spectrum)

[Edwin Vlems @EVlems]

@NotebookLM Why can’t I see my studio prompts anymore?

[Edwin Vlems @EVlems]

@MarcDubach Aha een niche

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just used a joke to perform an autopsy on the American economy.

Two economists go for a hike. They find a pile of shit. One pays the other $100 to eat it.

They keep walking. Find another pile. The second economist pays $100 back to eat that one.

They stop. Neither man gained a dollar. Both ate shit for nothing.

But on paper they just generated $200 in GDP.

Musk: “That basically would count as a job. This is to illustrate the absurdity of economics.”

That is not a punchline. That is the operating system of the federal government.

Every time a politician celebrates “record job creation” this is what they are describing. Not output. Not value. Not progress. Motion.

The entire bureaucratic machine exists to manufacture friction and then invoice for it.

Compliance layers built to justify the next compliance layer. Oversight committees that produce nothing but the need for more oversight. Consulting firms hired to audit the work of other consulting firms.

Trillions circulating through systems that have never produced a single thing you can hold in your hands. But the GDP number ticks up. So everyone applauds.

The shit gets eaten. The scoreboard moves. Nobody asks what actually got built.

This is why Washington treats AI like a five alarm fire.

AI does not play the friction game. It does not form a committee. It does not schedule a review. It does not file 400 pages of paperwork no one will ever read.

It just solves the problem.

And that is the one thing the machine cannot survive.

The government does not tax results. It taxes the process. The longer the process, the deeper the cut.

AI compresses a ten day workflow into seconds. There is nothing left to bill. Nothing left to tax. Nothing left to skim.

So they will spend the next decade warning you that AI threatens the economy.

What they will never say is what it actually threatens.

The illusion that activity equals progress.

The $200 economy where both men ate shit and called it a job.

The machines are not coming for your purpose.

They are coming to prove that half the economy never had one.

[Edwin Vlems @EVlems]

@NotebookLM Are you working on directories for your Notebooks? I have too many now :-)

[Edwin Vlems @EVlems]

@MarcDubach @ED_Regio Nationaal regionaal is het nieuwe normaal.

[Edwin Vlems @EVlems]

@liz_churchill10 @elonmusk @grok Why are the Irish so angry, apart from the Hormuz price rise?

[Edwin Vlems @EVlems]

@NotebookLM Can you make the English version available to people with a non-English menu?

[Edwin Vlems @EVlems]

@NotebookLM It doesn’t work in The Netherlands, even with English as output language 😞

[Edwin Vlems @EVlems]

@elonmusk @ns123abc @grok @grok What did Dario do?

[Edwin Vlems @EVlems]

@MarcDubach @odidonederland Gokkers zouden blij zijn met deze functie.

[Joost Schuttelaar @jstsch]

Even een tool gebouwd waarmee je veilig kan controleren of je data in de eerste miljoen gelekte Odido records zitten. Zelf zat ik er al in. Samen met 731943 adressen, 300413 IBAN's, 264367 telefoonnumers, 346919 emailadressen en 1 miljoen persoons/bedrijfsnamen: https://t.co/c5dnrRTfKq

[Edwin Vlems @EVlems]

@elonmusk @grok Can you redraw this as an honest chart on which the Y axis starts at 0?