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AI Tutoring Will Make Learning Fun Like Gyms Made Fitness

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Dwarkesh Patel@dwarkesh_sp#70inAI

Over the last 200 years, we've automated away a lot of hard physical labour. But people still go to the gym.

Indeed, many people today are more physically capable than people in the past. We can train systematically for whatever physical goal we want, and it's more fun than hard labour on a pre-modern farm.

@karpathy's hope is that, in the future, the same will be true of learning.

AI tutoring that's tailored to each person will make learning easy, and more people will want to do it. We will be able to go much further than our ancestors.

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Shae McLaughlin@shae_mcl

For AI-assisted learning to work, we need to figure out how to differentiate between unproductive and productive friction in learning. Unproductive friction = bad textbooks, content pitched at the wrong level, teachers not understanding your world model etc.

Dwarkesh Patel@dwarkesh_sp

Over the last 200 years, we've automated away a lot of hard physical labour. But people still go to the gym.

Indeed, many people today are more physically capable than people in the past. We can train systematically for whatever physical goal we want, and it's more fun than hard labour on a pre-modern farm.

@karpathy's hope is that, in the future, the same will be true of learning.

AI tutoring that's tailored to each person will make learning easy, and more people will want to do it. We will be able to go much further than our ancestors.

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