#9 Zak Stein: Avoid AI dystopia, solve the metacrisis. Education beyond schooling. The Eye of Value.

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Episode 9: Philosopher of education and futurist Zak Stein. This episode was recorded on March 12, 2024.

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00:00:00 Foreword 00:02:18 AI and metacrisis. 00:05:13 Technology and humanity. 00:09:04 Both centralized and decentralized solutions. 00:15:42 What is education? 00:18:43 The uniqueness of human learning. 00:23:24 The dialectic between learning and education. 00:27:27 Reading is not seeing is not hearing. 00:32:48 A catastrophe that will be hard to recognize until it's too late. 00:36:32 Intrinsic values. 00:39:37 Love – the last value standing? 00:48:29 The Eye of Value and vulnerable forms of life. 00:51:37 The infinite value of a tree. 00:54:59 Desires. 00:59:53 Truth without experts. 01:05:17 Postmodernism and values. 01:08:26 Beyond postmodernism. 01:17:29 Planetary culture superstructure. 01:22:44 Social media and the pressure to have a public opinion. 01:26:33 The proper value of education, learning and technology. 01:28:13 Afterword

Zak's web page https://www.zakstein.org/ The Consilience Project https://consilienceproject.org Zak's book Education in a Time Between Worlds https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/44125536-education-in-a-time-between-worlds Zak in Emerge podcast (episode AI Tutor Acocalypse) https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/zak-stein-ai-tutor-apocalypse/id1057220344?i=1000610403148 Scott Alexander's article Love and Liberty https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/love-and-liberty Zak's essay on the Eye of Value: https://www.zakstein.org/uploads/1/4/2/4/142408092/opening_the_eye_of_value_stein_2024.pdf David Chapman's Meaningness https://meaningness.com

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