Day 62 done!
Discussing Education researchers researching themselves (and making themselves look good)...
Continual learning for AI and you and I...
And using long-term thinking to preserve intellectual depth—for yourself and at scale.
Articles Discussed
Incentives and agendas.
As an institution, Education researching Education is incentivized to make Education look good.
At a personal level, any individual researcher is incentivized to make themselves look good for more funding/etc.
"Education research is weak and sloppy. Why?"
If AI needs continual learning to imitate intelligence, maybe we need continual learning too.
A great read that brings to light why long-term thinking matters, in terms of 2nd and 3rd order effects, and in terms of mission and vision drift.
Good intentions can have unintended consequences without intentional win-win systems to build your vision.
“Preserving Intellectual Depth on X: The Risks of Short-Term Algorithmic Optimization”
