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Cofounder/CEO @synthesischool . Scaling the best of the SpaceX lab school and building a superhuman tutor. For kids 5+
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The AI age means every family in the world will have access to a superhuman tutor that is infinitely knowledgeable and delightful to use.
We are building it. Starting with math but will expand to cover all the core knowledge of Western Civilization.
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The value of a liberal arts degree just dropped even more.
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Don’t wait too long to have kids. More meaning in one walk around the block with your 6yo than a lifetime of bar nights and brunches.
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Here’s a fun related story.
I went to the ER with severe stomach pain a few years ago. I googled and one of the most likely explanations is appendicitis.
They do MRI. No appendicitis. I say “Isn’t appendicitis bacterial? And therefore subject to exponential growth rates? So it
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When friends start homeschooling they are invariably shocked at how little time is needed for academics. School just fills the time.
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Belief: School is an intelligence test.
Reality: School is an obedience test.
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Teach your kids the joy of having no opinion on things they don't know about.
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My friend posted this video to the Chinese-only Tiktok and it is going viral.
Apparently it is uncommon for Chinese to shotput their children into lakes.
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Marc Andreessen recently tweeted “In our new era of AI: Every child will have an A.I. tutor that is infinitely patient, infinitely knowledgeable, infinitely helpful.”
That era is here.
Try it yourself 👉
1/n
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This is going to be a neutron bomb to the education system. People have no idea what’s coming.
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You really do learn 90% of politics in the 5th grade when the kid who promised free chocolate milk for all won the election and no one got chocolate milk.
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@bavoter
thats true but this wasn’t about how I felt. I was making a logical argument they still didn’t understand
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Nothing shows our failure to educate more than our collective shrug over the White House's plans to police speech on social media.
People have no idea why free speech is bedrock.
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Remember kids are living life, not simply preparing for it.
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Elon nails exactly what's wrong with education here and what needs to change.
You may not know he actually started a remarkable school at SpaceX for his kids based on his principles...
The school was called Ad Astra, Latin for “to the stars”.
Elon hired
@josh_dahn
to build
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When your kids are born, start an email account for them and write to them regularly.
It's one of the best things you can do to cherish the moments.
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Ordered a coffee just to try it. Magical experience. The robot does little dances while you wait.
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.
@Cernovich
is an example of what I've called the "elite homeschooler." He's not a hippy or fundamentalist. He has money and his kids would succeed anywhere. Yet he homeschools his kids.
His reasoning is similar to mine and many other families:
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there is a new phenomenon in education that I haven't heard anyone else talk about: the elite homeschooler.
these are people who opt out of school because they want to raise exceptional kids, and no school is deemed good enough.
they did not exist as a category 5 years ago.
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A wealth tax is a really great idea if you believe the federal government can deploy resources more effectively than, say, Elon Musk.
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It is madness to let your kids be educated by people who do not share your values.
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Kids are naturally so full of life and love.
Then we send them to school to sit and be bored all day.
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Watch the tutor catch this 9 year old's misconception and gently question him until he figures it out himself.
Even if he kept misunderstanding, the tutor would never lose patience or be disappointed in him. Would just keep going until he grokked it.
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Wife’s friends are all Dems. Her instagram feed is all panic attacks about Peter Thiel today. “Have you heard of this Thiel guy? He’s behind Trump. He’s very bad. Google him!”
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Elon: "I'm probably a cultural Christian."
Reminds me of what Chesterton said:
“Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.”
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The worst thing school does is condition people to accept commands without explanation. This is why people treat "experts" like priests.
Teach your kids not to "trust" experts, but to seek explanations from them. And teach them there is no explanation they cannot understand.
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I'm excited to announce
@synthesischool
has closed a $12M financing round led by
@balajis
and
@amasad
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Intellectuals who don't suffer the consequences of their ideas are the purest form of evil.
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People are asking “Didn’t they sign the papers from the school swearing they wouldn’t let their kids swim?”
And my friend is telling them in America, kids are allowed to swim.
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She tells me it is because a) parents don’t roughhouse with their kids as much in China, and b) they don’t swim in lakes.
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is there anyone in the world who both a) has a decent understanding of principles of complex systems and b) thinks the ozempic craze is going to end well?
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I’m almost embarrassed to admit I haven’t done this before, but today I gave my boys a list of their daily tasks including chores, fitness, and academics. When they’re done they’re done, I’m not asking them to do anything else. They seem to like this a lot.
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@steve_papito
No they gets tons of social interaction. They play sports and go to meetups with other homeschoolers during the day.
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@synthesischool
has raised a Series A!
$5M at $50M post from
@APompliano
and a syndicate of ~50 angels, founders, and influencers.
Here's the story of how the synthesis approach was born at SpaceX, how I got involved, and how we got to here...
Today I'm announcing that I have led the $5 million Series A round in
@synthesischool
.
Our current education system was built for the industrial age. We must teach our children to be prepared for the digital age.
More information in video and thread 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
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I was with Democrat friends when Trump was shot. They guessed the shooter might be a family member of “one of the police officers killed by the January 6th mob.”
“Wait. How many do you think were killed?”
They shrugged. “Like 10 to 15?”
People not on X live in bizarro world.
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@gilgildner
it's not primarily hippies and religious people anymore. now it's the people who are conventionally successful as well. different vibe.
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Our COO has a great tactic for getting things done quickly.
When a vendor says “We can get that done in a week,” he says “Can we just handle it while we’re on this call?”
30% of the time the answer is yes.
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I don't know a single person whose life has been improved by consuming alcohol.
Alright, you know what, I'm done with alcohol.
It's addictive, toxic, depressing, fattening, and a big negative in my life.
If anyone *ever* sees me drinking alcohol again, I want you to tell me you're disappointed in me.
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Trying out something new for
@synthesischool
. We share these clips with parents to show them the kind of thinking going on in session. Here's some impressive leadership from 10yo Emmett:
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Skin in the game!
Pulled my 7yo out of school for the fall. Synthesis will be his only formal education.
We are starting with a small group of precocious 6,7, and 8 year olds.
Up to 2 hours a day, 5 days/week.
Want to join us? 👇
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When
@synthesischool
is in full flower, our students will reach the 99th percentile in math, science, and language in 1-2 hours a day on screen, and spend the rest of their days in sports, exploring nature, etc.
The goal is not more screen time, but to restore childhood.
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Age segregation of children is a sociopathic idea.
Every child disconnected from future and past, never mentor nor mentee.
Inhuman.
Let’s be the generation that ends it.
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Another friend pulled his kid from public school and joined our homeschool co-op. Once again, they are shocked at how little time it takes to do the academic work.
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Vance has wartime physiognomy. He looks like every civil war general who got promoted after the first few battles happened and people figured out who was good at war.
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AI tutors are going to make a complete mockery of the education system within a few years.
That is our goal at least. Nothing against teachers. But they will have to (or get to?) add value in a different way.
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When the big story is the regime vs. a comedian, the regime has already lost.
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It's easier to build a new education system than it is to reform the existing one.
It’s easier to build a new financial system than it is to reform the existing one.
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What do you guys think of this?
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Imagine a global education network accessible to any child with an internet connection starting at age six or seven. Any child can join the network regardless of ability.
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So endearing that apex gigachad Tom Brady is your standard autist — insane attention to detail, compulsion to share that detail, not an ounce of concern for whether the listener is following.
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I did not learn very much in school. But I did develop a deep and abiding hatred of arbitrary authority that will burn in my heart until the day I die. So not a total waste, I suppose.
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I am not a public health expert, but…
Not sure treating people with sneering contempt and censoring dissent are the best strategies to overcome vaccine hesitancy.
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Something we've been talking about a lot at Synthesis is how to clearly communicate our values to parents. This slide captures it pretty well.
Study the past — The older I get, and the more I watch Wokeism/Communism destroy our institutions, the more I realize the value in
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Teach your kids it is ok to ask authorities how they know what they know.
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Email from our accounting firm: "This is a little unorthodox but...can we invest?"
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You love to see billionaires conspiring to fix education.
Four years ago, I started Synthesis with
@josh_dahn
, director of Elon’s lab school at SpaceX.
Here’s my Billionaire’s Guide to Funding a Golden Age of Education…
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DEI is over. Time to return to meritocracy in both education and hiring.
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Asking the question "How to improve schools?" is a classic reasoning by analogy mistake.
Schools are not a first principle.
A better question: "How do we raise kids with the values, skills, and mindsets to flourish?"
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The more you try to control people, the more they rebel, the more you try to control them, ad infinitum.
This is why the schools keep getting worse.
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A major mistake parents make is overestimating the importance of learning things early.
Don't let your anxiety destroy your child's love of learning by force feeding knowledge before they're ready.
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The goal is just to
a) Make education so great that even billionaires can't buy anything better, then
b) Make that affordable for as many people as possible.
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I’m late to the party but Perplexity has replaced Google search for me.
What’s more, I find myself using search more often. Hadn’t realized I was subconsciously avoiding search because of how awful Google is.
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Unbundle daycare and education.
Daycare to make kids happy and socialized.
Education to make them smart.
Bundling them gets us the worst of both worlds.
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We will know we've built a better education system when teachers can no longer use the "wait until you get to the *real* world" threat.
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Let’s build a new education system.
Who would you nominate to set the curriculum?
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Human math teachers will soon be relegated to the dustbin of history.
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The greatest trap for smart people is attempting to design complex systems.
Gall's law
"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work."
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Glorious. The progressive version of “What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?”
Trans-identifying kids reported being bullied for their identity to staffers… but the bullies often didn’t receive punishment because they were usually black or Latino. 7/
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The hardest part of effective thinking is un-thinking bad ideas.
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The future of education is likely a much *smaller* education industry. College is too expensive and the vast majority of people shouldn't go. K-12 is mostly daycare, and the academics portion can be done in 1/10th the time.
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Wealthy elites have always known tutoring builds exceptional people.
Alexander the Great was tutored by Aristotle.
The holy grail of education technology is a superhuman personal tutor.
That is what we are building, starting with mathematics.
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You are hiding DEI propaganda in your math curriculum, are you not?
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The idea that you need to be schooled until age 22 or so to be useful to society is historically recent insanity.
Breaking this system is a trillion dollar opportunity in aggregate.
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Investor asked me what my exit strategy was.
Caught me off guard as I had literally never considered it.
@synthesischool
is our life’s work, and we will never ever sell for any amount. Ever.
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High IQ people tend to imagine high IQ problems so they can use their big brain to solve them.
Successful people simplify problems.
Of the smarter men I know, their greatest foible is running simulations in their mind of “what could go wrong.” Then they invent solutions. All in their brain. It’s a form of Gnosticism. You’re in a body. The physical world gets to push back, too. Gotta get out of the head.
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Here's what Josh and I are doing for our own kids...
1/ Forest school 3-4 hrs/day
Wander in the woods or beach. 10-15 kids w/ a teacher or two. Socialize and observe ecosystems. Foster joie de vivre. Avoid spirit-crushing modern school environment.
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Today was our first meeting with the cabinet ministers of a sovereign government who want to roll out Synthesis Tutor to all their nation’s kids.
People laughed when we said this would happen.
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This summer, your kids can get a taste of this remarkable learning experience with Synthesis summer camp.
It's all online. Your kids will meet and work with smart peers from all over the world. They will solve problems through fun but complex video games and simulations. It runs
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Civilization cannot survive mass college education in its current form.
College makes people useless to others until age 22, much later than historical norms.
This is debilitating mentally and spiritually. We need to be useful.
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Hiring more won’t make you go faster because the output of your projects follows a power law.
When constrained by people, you focus on the 1-2 most critical bottlenecks.
When you have extra people they work on non-bottlenecks, which does nothing to increase overall speed.
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Can already see where this is going.
We're going to end up paying the top Synthesis 14 year olds $30k to train as software engineers for a year, then hiring them at age 15 and paying them $100k salary.
Mostly this will happen outside of the U.S.
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We are working on a secret project right now that, if it works, will be as big for education as reusable rockets are for space industry.
I would have said it was impossible 6 months ago.
Wish I could tell you guys about it. Soon.
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Lockdown era school was good for Synthesis primarily because millions of parents got a window into the education methods of standard schools. That genie will not go back in the bottle.
Lockdown era zoom school led to school choice being enacted in several states. Millions of new home schoolers.
Public health revealed as a fake science.
Lightness from dark.
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The goal of school is preparation for the next level of school.
The goal of Synthesis is effective action in the real world.
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In positive sum games, Excellence over Equality is necessary.
Thoughts?
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Can't tell if this is parody, but it reminds me of the something I learned when my two boys (now 10 and 8) were very young.
We never had to do any discipline with the older one. But when the younger one was about 2 he started antagonizing his big brother, pulling hair and that
Slapping kids is fine, and people should do it more. People horrified by this are liberals with genes that are high on conformity and don’t understand that some people’s children need this.
Much respect to the Collinses for doing it in front of a journalist.
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Our boy turned 7.
In ancient Sparta, this is the end of childhood. He would be torn from his mother to enter the agogé, brutal training to become a Spartan peer.
In modern California, we are at his little league game. Seems like progress.
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Me: Is life going to be easy or hard?
Boys [7 and 5]: Hard.
Me: When it gets hard do you want to be strong or weak?
Boys: Strong.
Me: Do you get stronger by doing hard things, or easy things?
Boys: Hard.
Me: Should we keep hiking then?
Boys: Ok.
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