AI Livestreaming
Nothing is boring
A tragedy
Everyone knows AIs are educationally dangerous. They enable cheating, they hallucinate facts, they cut creativity and injure imagination, they make things too simple.
Everyone is missing something huge: AIs like ChatGPT and Claude might be the greatest device we have for falling in love with the world. They just need to be combined with one thing: the lost tools of learning.
New tech, meet the old tools
When people chat with AIs, they tend to stay shallow. They ask for details and facts. They don’t know how to get the AI to speak human, to connect to our emotions to make a topic matter.
In Science is WEIRD, we know how to do that, because we’re practitioners of the subtle art of Egan education. Among Egan’s tools of learning are so many…
metaphors
gossip
vivid mental images
nonsense
warring ideas
personification
heroic stories
bizarre details
…that AIs do wonderfully. The problem is, nobody asks them.
In these events, you’ll learn how to get AIs to speak human, and reconnect you with the weirdness of reality.
Dates & times
Saturday, Oct. 5: 3pm Eastern / 12pm Pacific (life science)
Thursday, Oct. 10: 9pm Eastern / 6pm Pacific (history)
Thursday, Oct. 17: 9pm Eastern / 6pm Pacific (math)
Thursday, Oct. 24: 9pm Eastern / 6pm Pacific (physical science)
Thursday, Oct. 31: 9pm Eastern / 6pm Pacific (geography)
They’re all recorded, and viewable on our YouTube channel.
What can you expect?
Each live streaming event is a challenge for Brandon.
First 5 minutes
The group comes up with the most boring topic they can imagine, liked to the subject (like math or life science or history) of the week. Past topics have included long division, commas, polygenic inheritance, and the history of the tax code.
Middle 45 minutes
Brandon scrambles to research the topic with ChatGPT and the lost tools, answering your questions and showing you how to do it.
Final 10 minutes
The group votes: how close did Brandon come to…
helping you understand the topic
making it grab you by your emotions
connecting it to the big picture of life, the Universe, and everything?
Then the video is loaded to our YouTube playlist, so people can watch in the future.
Who’s this for?
Everyone who’s tired of learning and teaching things that feel boring. (Adults and kids.)
Egan said about schools:
We represent the world to children as mostly known and rather dull. The opposite is the case: we are surrounded by mystery, and what we know is fascinating.
Because it’s free, it’s designed to be an outreach event. Wanna help move the our education revolution forward? Post this somewhere that people might love being able to make anything interesting.
(And if you do, you’ll probably also be interested in our year-long AI-fueled course, Learning in Depth. It’s life-changing.)