{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Crazy Wisdom","title":"Why is Modernity Difficult on Spiritual Deviants? w/ Neal Davis","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/0eec4eb8\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3931,"description":" \nDirector of developer experience at the Urbit Foundation\n~lagrev-nocfep on Urbit\n@sigilante on twitter\n\n \n What is a sigil?\nWhat is the most important thing you’ve learned about teaching?  Driven by authoritarian high modernism\nTop down imposition\nStructural way of understanding context\nIndustrial revolution\nTen years ago there was online education\nMIT open course where\nOpen up the content to everyone and it will create revolution\n Introducing a model that the person gets illuminated from\nHumans are good at metaphors\nGive them a framework and people will figure it out\n These things are measurable\n Open problem in computer science\nTwo classes of complexity\nPolynomial time\nVastly exponentially complicated than things that can be solved in a certain time\nNP on the hard problems\n Has to do with the structure of our attention\n 9 years experience\nPhilosophy of pedagogy\nWhy doesn’t it make it easy to open up knowledge?\nHow do you make something relevant?\nStrongly in favor of hyper individualist approach to teaching\nInterdisciplinary\nTry everything, some things stick\nAnalogical reasoning\nHow do you improvise for metaphors?\nWhy is it so disincentivized to do improv?\nInput output model doesn’t quite work because the context is so vast\nThe model of the areas of learning is helpful but not 100% accurate\nTutorial method does not scale but its the most effective\nReally hard problem\nP=NP what is it?\nWhen I’m working on a particular mode, gumption traps, energy sinks, takes a lot of agency to activate yourself out of the state\nRumsfeld called the unknown unknowns\nWhat questions do you have? Is a better question than What are your questions?\nWhat do you do when you need to solve a problem?\nSomeone tried to build a solution for what Neal is talking about at 10 minutes in\nGo to the fringes to get the edge cases\nWhat is the advantage of a low status source?\nHow do you make your questions and answers legible?\nSubtopics and how to use them?\nWhat is the demand for previous for...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/UZbrDrlO5VTfDNcq188THwbv0T09vcmLyzx3BcPI9bs/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81Y2Rj/OGFiMTYyMGFkNTM5/N2NjOWI2MWM5YzQ1/YTc2Ny5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}