Comments by "" (@josephcoon5809) on "The Most Persistent Myth" video.

No…that is a fool’s errand. When you centralize something like “education,” you remove the ability for a teacher to adapt content to students. Distractions have exponentially increased which has further exacerbated the issue of short attention spans. Removing education from the free market has stunted its evolution while subsidizing an idea that should have died off two decades ago has made it nearly impossible for education to evolve. MEANWHILE, video games competed fiercely in the free market causing that industry to evolve in leaps and bounds. Society has removed the pleasurable aspect of learning and left it to evolve in the free market while leaving the practical aspect to languish in government regulation and subsidy. All the economics and business degrees that are out there, and none of them can figure it out because they don’t understand how leaning manifests. Then you have “educators” who barely understand learning but completely don’t understand economics or evolution determining how much funding is spent and where… It’s a complete cluster F, and it’s all because of centralized government.
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@Mercurio-Morat-Goes-Bughunting The problem is assuming that game play and game setting are intimately bound. Imagine a game where a gnomish, Actinius, inventor created a harness that was utilized to harness power from mercenaries to provide motility for a 300’ mechanism that walks between battlefields. The mercenaries, then disembark to battle. The most notorious mercenaries for this task come from Myosinae. Now imagine a ten year old that played this for ten years, and is now in college taking microbiology. When he gets to the chapter about actin and myosin proteins, his face lights up in nostalgia as he remembers something strikingly similar from his childhood. “Yo!!! This is my $hit!!! I had this 550’ mech with tribe full battalions of Mysonaen mercenaries crewing it!!” While the child was learning gameplay, they learned game setting aspects tied directly to real world concepts. That’s not the only way to tie video games to learning either. The point is, video games provide a spectacular opportunity to weave real world practical knowledge into a platform that already teaches things like resource management in RTSs or critical thinking in RPGs. By integrating real world knowledge into a platform that allows a child to put that knowledge into practical use immediately, you automatically create that emotional tie to the knowledge being taught that is inherently lacking in standardized education.
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@Mercurio-Morat-Goes-Bughunting The non-obvious fact of the matter is that consciousness is virtual reality. People are just so used to it, that they confuse it with actual reality. When you understand that, you understand that Nature has developed the greatest learning method known to man…because each one was born with it. It is no surprise that games are diverging on the level of virtualization that Nature has already achieved. If it works, don’t fix it. Man isn’t inventing virtual reality. Man is copying it from Nature.
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@aaronmicalowe Hey, no worries. Children express wishes all the time hoping for an adult to come along and make it happen…or they grow up and learn how to make it happen.
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6:30 Making a learner think is best achieve through play. Sorry, but Nature figured that out millions of years ago. Sorry you didn’t get the memo, son. 7:00 Well, ya finally convinced me to unsubscribe, and have motivated me to work harder on my system so I can stop you from polluting minds with bad ideas. Cheers 🍻
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0:15 Yeah. TVs supplanted textbooks as tech oligarchs found a good way to indoctrinate the foolish. Then they just moved the indoctrination to schools. Plato already had all this figured out over 2,000 years ago… 2:00 What a bunch of bull$hit. The cost of education isn’t because of “expensive teachers.” I didn’t like you for awhile, but you are meddling in something extremely important to me. You are a snug narcissist, and you should not be speaking on this subject at all…
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3:30 Yeah. I’m not surprised that you leave a lot out in a 7 minute video. The fundaMENTAL concept that you miss is that Nature has already developed the best learning mechanism which incorporates virtual reality: the brain. Kids learn a lot playing video games, they just don’t learn the same content found in text books. Your studies seem to leave a lot out regarding cognition, retention of ideas, and mastery of skills.
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Oh Christ… YouTube? No. I got a better idea, but you’ll have to wait for details: “Mnemonicarium” and “Theta Wave.”
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6:00 Yep… you definitely don’t understand. Play is an activity that spans multiple species for a reason. Play is how Nature integrated learning with enjoyment. We took Play out of education and let it evolve naturally in the free market while leaving learning in a stagnant centrally planned government bureaucracy. Education didn’t evolve for the same reason everything doesn’t evolve: you controlled it from a centralized location. If you people designed a brain the same way, we would get absolutely nothing done as we tried to regulate every subconscious internal process leaving no attention for the “outside.”
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@yusha1059 Video games used to come with large instruction manuals that I loved. Then they figured out how to integrate the instructions into the game to remove the cost of publishing manuals. Schools took a completely different approach. They allowed publishers to make minor changes to a textbook so that government would pay for a “new” edition every year or so. In the FREE market, that process would never have happened. At most, publishers would print a couple pages of errata. Unfortunately, people who say they care about education, care just enough to vote for somebody else to sign 1,000 page bills that they never read that was drafted by corporate lobbyists. This, “I don’t really care, throw money at the problem” attitude is why education is in shambles.
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@Babyadultskater “5+5” hardly exemplifies the electives outside the main course path that one is required to take in order to maintain funding for useless classes…
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@Babyadultskater What you call “culture” is racist in today’s academia: either due to “gate keeping,” “appropriation,” or “supremacy.”
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@Babyadultskater Having common knowledge within the community you are in is important. Your vague musings leave a lot of pertinent detail out. I could have functioned just fine not know that people pay $100,000s on paint splatter on a canvas merely because Pollock’s name was on it, yet here we are talking about it because that bit of knowledge taking up valuable neural real estate hasn’t been recouped yet.
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@Babyadultskater Your take on people who determine what is useful for themselves smacks of pure hubris and elitism. How the world would be with more paragons of wisdom like you.
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@Youtube_Stole_My_Handle_Too EXACTLY!!! Which is why Plato had it right over 2,000 years ago. Forced education holds no purchase on a young mind for very long. I did a speech for Public Speaking 101 a long time ago. It was on the educational value of video games. I think between 2000-2004, the Federal government allocated $2 billion across those four years. In JUST 2000, America spent $22 billion on video games. I remember kids pouring hover strategy guides night after night while having zero internet in their text books. If people really want to figure out how to engage kids, they should study video games that had to COMPETE in the free market. That competition drove the rapid evolution of video games which now far outstrips industrialized school systems in their capacity to hold a child’s attention.
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@NK-fx1qs Absolutely wrong. Everybody is different so EVERYBODY does not need to be well rounded. Specialists and generalists both have their place, and they all have varying degrees of specialization and generalization. Every hierarchical mesh network exemplifies this from the military, to a large corporation, to a PROPERLY functioning government, to the neurons in your brain. Making vague and broadly stroked statements cannot be supported in any practical way. It is a useless platitude that you did absolutely no thinking on.
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@jingalls9142 There’s no motivation to learn as government is tapped more and more to provide for individuals. There is no tangible reason for a child to earn, and the abstract reason of getting a number or letter grade holds no real value for a child. You put them on a video game, and they will grind for hours to get the best “gear” which is also abstract, but has more practical use than an A or a 100%. There is very little for a child to attach their emotions to in school. It is too rigid and too bland to create the proper environment of competition that naturally engages the brain.
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@Mercurio-Morat-Goes-Bughunting Nope. Play is the most natural learning method that spans multiple species. The ACTUAL trick is to incorporate practical knowledge into games which requires an understanding of how the brain functions as well as the creativity to weave those practical skills into easily digestible formats. The ACTUAL problem is the highly centralized and standardized format that leaves absolutely zero room for adapting material to individual minds. In short, removing ANYTHING from a free market stutter its evolution.
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@Mercurio-Morat-Goes-Bughunting Well, that’s the power of decentralized mesh networks. You can program various concepts into different meshes, then connect meshes together in various ways. Karate Kid did the same sort of thing with “wax the car.” Daniel’s initial drive to learn karate kept him motivated to do a good job for his teacher. Then as frustration set in, that alternate emotional pathway added more weight to the conditioning. Eventually, the conditioned response was tied back to martial arts even though it was established through “chores.” You get exposure past many conscious defense mechanisms though encapsulation. Plato incorporated encapsulation to spread wisdom by putting it into a work of “fiction” called “The Republic.” By disassociating himself from what he was teaching, he was able to speak truth to power without the same danger that Socrates had to deal with. Every bit of learning is done through associations and patterns. That makes learning fractal in nature. Finding the top level abstraction for an idea allows you to instantiate that abstraction multiple ways. That’s how you adapt the material to different minds instead of trying to adapt many minds to a single concept.
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@Youtube_Stole_My_Handle_Too Yep. Nobody talks about how nearly doubling the work pool negatively impacted wages. Labor and laborers follow the same basic economic principles everything else does since the dawn of life: which ever side is in surplus necessarily has to compete. More laborers mean they compete by offering to do more for less wages… And schools serve a secondary purpose: by industrializing education, you can mass produce cogs for other people’s machines.
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@aaronmicalowe Society pays for the value provided. What kind of adults do you end up with when you train kids to rely on government for basic societal functions? If you educate kids to be sovereign and use more critical thinking than submission to authority, then your method of teaching will be more attractive…to wealth. The Sophists were much sought after because they taught the ruling class how to control the masses through emotional rhetoric. Socrates spoke truth to this Power by advocating for rational discourse which ran counter to Sophistry. If critical thinking would free a population, who would be compelled to silence/execute Socrates? Better question: who would benefit most from Socrates failing to free the minds of society? The answer to both is answered in his execution. If critical thinking is beneficial for society, the. Socrates should live. So Sophistry was used convince society that Socrates should be executed. In Socrates’ sacrifice, he proved his point. If you can access a larger group of people’s emotions, you can convince the to strip a single citizens’s right to Speak; his right to defend himself; his Right to Life. Now look at today. Who is calling for codifying laws based on emotional rhetoric? Who is calling people -istaphobes for disagreeing when they exercise their Freedom to Speak? Who is calling to strip people of their right to defend themselves? Who uses weeks of video footage to convict a teenager in the court of public opinion only to correct the story using far less effort that was used to attack him unjustly in the first place? Which side is calling for consideration of “lived experience” when determining when harm was done?
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@ixalaz4536 “…because an authority figure said so.” When you condition a child to accept “because I said so” when they ask a question, you create a society that obediently attacks their neighbors… “because I said so.”
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@stirfrysends How? What exactly are they supposed to relate their studies to when they haven’t even lived life yet? 😂 I hope that was sarcasm. 😂
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@aaronmicalowe Yeah… THAT is the problem. People announce their great idea; vote; then stop paying attention to the laws passed. You want a better life for somebody, do some work and figure out how to make it happen…that doesn’t involve forcing your ideas on people through government.
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@aaronmicalowe “Supporting teachers” how? With words?
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@aaronmicalowe So, again, you want other people to do it. You’ll just use words.
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@aaronmicalowe I’ve been looking in the mirror for the last five years, pal. Besides, no. I want people to do what they want other people to do. 😂 It’s not rocket surgery.
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@aaronmicalowe Again, you are stating WHAT you want, not how to get there. As far as I have seen your only offer of a solution is “society should do it” which is automatically NOT you doing it.
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@aaronmicalowe The ultimate point is that you actually don’t care. If you did, you would expend the effort to develop and implement the solution. You merely use words to signal how virtuous you think your wishes are to avoid admitting how much your inaction lacks actual virtue.
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@aaronmicalowe “I don’t have the power to control society…” Nobody should have that power, and that’s the point. “I can see that will never include you as you seem to have given up on humanity.” It SEEMS that way to you because you have no idea what I am thinking, saying, or working on. What you ultimately don’t understand is that I am far from giving up on humanity because I do not believe in forcing people to do what I think should be done by having governments pass laws to enforce what I believe. Not even close. I believe in humanity so much that I work to provide better options than merely “wishing” or voting for people to pass laws based on my “wishes.” I work to provide so many more better options than government, that people won’t be able to help but see how horribly politics is ruining society. My “outlook” is far broader than your words imply about your capacity to understand, so your meager attempts to paint yourself as more virtuous than me is quite pathetic. 😂 However, keep avoiding how useless your words are as you attempt to paint me as something I am not. 😂
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@aaronmicalowe That’s the next logical step when when a child’s “wishes” go unanswered. Instead of growing up and actually doing something, you will get bitter and desperate, then you will vote instead of work for a solution. I’ve read exactly what you’ve been saying and it fits a specific pattern.
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