What David Deutsch thinks about education

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Physicist at the University of Oxford and a pioneer of quantum computation; author of The Fabric of Reality (1997) and The Beginning of Infinity (2011).

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1. 3 Oct 2012

   Our readingEducation, of humans or AGIs, must stop being treated as instruction.

   Their wordsOne implication is that we must stop regarding education (of humans or AGIs alike) as instruction — as a means of transmitting existing knowledge unaltered, and causing existing values to be enacted obediently.

   ↗How close are we to creating artificial intelligence?aeon.co 13th of 15 in this piece