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The Downfall of the Ivy League | Victor Davis Hanson | EP 325
Dr Jordan B Peterson and Victor Davis Hanson discuss the state of Ivy League universities, the rise of administrative exploitation, and the cost of our institutions losing credibility. Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, focusing on classics and military history. He is an accomplished academic, professor, and author. He has taught at Stanford, Hillsdale College, the US Naval Academy, and Pepperdine University. His books include “The Second World Wars,” “The End of Sparta,” “The Soul of Battle, Carnage and Culture,” the most recent being “The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism,...
A Generative AI Upped Worker Productivity and Satisfaction—and the Lowest-Skilled Benefited Most
Since OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT last November, the buzz around generative AI has been steadily ramping up. Some are excited about its potential to transform the way we work, create, and live, while others are wary of the dangers it poses and the nefarious ways it can be used. We know that programs like Midjourney, DALL-E, and GPT-4 are enabling millions of people to generate images and text, but not many studies have dug into the impact these tools are having, be it positive or negative. One such study was released this month. Titled “Generative AI at Work,” the paper, by teams from Stanford and...
The Woke: Imposing Solutions, Ignoring Evidence - Thomas Sowell
The woke believe they have solutions to societal problems and use government power to impose them, often ignoring evidence and creating artificial crises, while individuals should rely on institutions and processes to achieve their own goals instead of looking for saviors Questions to inspire discussion What is the four-stage pattern of creating a crisis? —The four-stage pattern involves manufacturing a crisis and proposing a solution that aligns with a shared vision, even if the situation was already improving. What is the argument for reducing dependency through government aid? —The argument was sold as an investment that would pay off in...
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