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I think I view humanity fairly positively, but I admit I would gladly take the other side of that bet

Verdex 13d ago
A quick search suggests that the most expensive education in the world is something like $100k. So like you spend a million times more than that and you still think you're not going to see some results?
- jimbooonooo 13d ago
  except you are missing the one versus many argument here. sure we could make one human much smarter, could we make endless copies with the same intelligence? no
  - strange_quark 13d ago
    For $100 billion we could pay ivy-league level tuition for a million people. You don’t think investing that much in education would yield some good research or companies?
    - howunfortunate 13d ago
      That's not what the parent comment said though > any human for which we spend $100billion - $3 trillion...would be able to reach all of those levels
- howunfortunate 13d ago
  Some results, sure. But that list is extremely ambitious. Write a best seller, make a popular game, come up with a truly novel theory, consistently outtrade index funds. That's top 0.001% human stuff, I don't think you can take just any person and get there through education alone, it takes extreme talent and dedication. There's also diminishing returns when spending on education, it doesn't just improve linearly.
- steelframe 13d ago
  > A quick search suggests that the most expensive education in the world is something like $100k. I have a kid in an American university right now, and a quick search of my bank account statements confirms that there are far more expensive educations in the world.
  - Dylan16807 13d ago
    Wow, an increasing number of US universities are going over $100k per year. That's a crazy amount. That's more than enough to hire an entire person.
- bigDinosaur 13d ago
  The marginal return on education spending decreases fairly quickly, but obviously becomes zero at the point by which there are not enough hours in the day/year/decade to cover every single topic that humans know about - no matter the talent or resources available to the student.

A quick search suggests that the most expensive education in the world is something like $100k. So like you spend a million times more than that and you still think you're not going to see some results?

jimbooonooo 13d ago
except you are missing the one versus many argument here. sure we could make one human much smarter, could we make endless copies with the same intelligence? no
- strange_quark 13d ago
  For $100 billion we could pay ivy-league level tuition for a million people. You don’t think investing that much in education would yield some good research or companies?
  - howunfortunate 13d ago
    That's not what the parent comment said though > any human for which we spend $100billion - $3 trillion...would be able to reach all of those levels
howunfortunate 13d ago
Some results, sure. But that list is extremely ambitious. Write a best seller, make a popular game, come up with a truly novel theory, consistently outtrade index funds. That's top 0.001% human stuff, I don't think you can take just any person and get there through education alone, it takes extreme talent and dedication. There's also diminishing returns when spending on education, it doesn't just improve linearly.
steelframe 13d ago
> A quick search suggests that the most expensive education in the world is something like $100k. I have a kid in an American university right now, and a quick search of my bank account statements confirms that there are far more expensive educations in the world.
- Dylan16807 13d ago
  Wow, an increasing number of US universities are going over $100k per year. That's a crazy amount. That's more than enough to hire an entire person.
bigDinosaur 13d ago
The marginal return on education spending decreases fairly quickly, but obviously becomes zero at the point by which there are not enough hours in the day/year/decade to cover every single topic that humans know about - no matter the talent or resources available to the student.