“Today we’re talking about all 147 types of military aircraft. At the end of the lesson, you’ll be tested on your ability to identify them purely by the sound of their thrusters.”
“Teacher? When will we be using this in real life?”
“That’s an excellent question Jimmy. Now get in the Good Questions Oubliette and think about the answer on your own time.”
I like it very much. Tho i would like to ask why you see objectivity as good whiile subjectivity is bad. And im not sure if “blames self for world” is really a good thing; seems like low self worth. And im missing the revolutionary character. Like martin luther king. Maybe something like “inspires others to change for good”.
I too don’t entirely agree with the image I used, but:
I can see subjectivity being used in the wrong contexts a lot: “We are disgusted by this, therefore it should be illegal”.
Yeah, the self-blame seems weird up there, but I can imagine someone thinking “I could have done more to help the world” leading to thinking “what’s the best I could do now to be satisfied with my performance later?”.
The revolutionary might be a combination of “wants to help” and “talks out problems”.
Quora used to be cool. I haven’t had the energy to move everything from there to a currently sensible place, because those don’t have a working import function. Copy-paste breaks so much.
It was social media for intellectuals. Barack Obama wrote a few answers during his presidency. Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia founder) used to write there. Alan Kay (computer scientist from ARPA IPTO and Xerox PARC) still writes there.
In 2012, Quora’s other co-founder was smoked out. The remaining co-founder-CEO, a libertarian techbro who doesn’t use Quora, let smart people lead it until ~2017 when he started enshittifying it. Top writer promotion program ended. Real name policy ended. All answer wikis deleted without warning. Suggest edits function disabled. All community editing disabled, now stupid bots make a mess. Fired 99% of human moderation, bots fail at it, professional spammers moved in. Quora’s own AI-generated slop answers on the top of everyone’s feed. Every year the CEO does more damage.
This should be the new education system. We’d fast track humanity tenfold.
“Today we’re talking about all 147 types of military aircraft. At the end of the lesson, you’ll be tested on your ability to identify them purely by the sound of their thrusters.”
“Teacher? When will we be using this in real life?”
“That’s an excellent question Jimmy. Now get in the Good Questions Oubliette and think about the answer on your own time.”
I’d like to think that’s what a proper PhD prior to the dissertation stage, after that you would just be memorizing not producing new research.
You might like my school plan:
https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-things-schools-should-teach-but-dont/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen
A matching system is mentioned.
I like it very much. Tho i would like to ask why you see objectivity as good whiile subjectivity is bad. And im not sure if “blames self for world” is really a good thing; seems like low self worth. And im missing the revolutionary character. Like martin luther king. Maybe something like “inspires others to change for good”.
I too don’t entirely agree with the image I used, but:
Why’re you posting your education manifesto on Quora?
Quora used to be cool. I haven’t had the energy to move everything from there to a currently sensible place, because those don’t have a working import function. Copy-paste breaks so much.
Cool how? What changed?
It was social media for intellectuals. Barack Obama wrote a few answers during his presidency. Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia founder) used to write there. Alan Kay (computer scientist from ARPA IPTO and Xerox PARC) still writes there.
In 2012, Quora’s other co-founder was smoked out. The remaining co-founder-CEO, a libertarian techbro who doesn’t use Quora, let smart people lead it until ~2017 when he started enshittifying it. Top writer promotion program ended. Real name policy ended. All answer wikis deleted without warning. Suggest edits function disabled. All community editing disabled, now stupid bots make a mess. Fired 99% of human moderation, bots fail at it, professional spammers moved in. Quora’s own AI-generated slop answers on the top of everyone’s feed. Every year the CEO does more damage.
Quora 2013:
https://www.quora.com/How-does-monoamine-oxidase-MAO-cleave-monoamines/answer/Alex-Siegel
Quora 2016:
https://www.quora.com/Which-theory-best-explains-why-humanity-screws-up/answer/Rob-Ennals
About Quora in 2026: https://blog.franklinveaux.com/2026/01/quora-what-went-wrong/