Alpha School: A New Approach To Education - MacKenzie Price - #981
Modern Wisdom
08/16/25
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MacKenzie Price is an entrepreneur, podcaster, and co-founder of Alpha Schools.
Just how broken is education? For fifty years, lofty promises in education have yielded dismal results. Now, with AI, infinite knowledge at our fingertips, and personalized one-on-one learning, how radically different could the school of the future look?
Expect to learn what is fundamentally broken about the current education and school system, what kills motivation to excel in school for kids the most, if the issue with addiction to screen time and technology is to blame for lack of performance, how AI will revolutionize the education sector and which schools are already ahead of the curve, How Alpha school convinces skeptical parents that this radically different system will benefit their child, and much more...
Timestamps:
(0:00) Why is the School Model Broken?
(8:54) Why Has the Education System Resisted Innovation?
(11:23) Why We Need to Reinvent Our Education System
(18:58) How We Can Reimagine the School Day
(25:54) A Day in the Life at Alpha Schools
(35:08) Using AI in Education
(38:43) The Effectiveness of Using Technology in School
(43:29) How Learning is Measured at Alpha Schools
(51:20) Criticisms of Alpha Schools
(01:02:05) Where Will the Education System Be in 5 Years?
(01:06:28) Find Out More About Mackenzie
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August 14, 2025
•72m
David Pinsof is a research scientist at UCLA, co-creator of Cards Against Humanity, and an author.
Everything is bullshit. Your opinions, your arguments, even your thoughts. Most of it’s manufactured, borrowed, or absorbed without question. So if all that’s fake, what’s real? And if we can’t trust our own minds, or anyone else’s, what can we trust?
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(7:48) Incentives are Key to Human Behaviour
(12:33) Why Do We Have Opinions?
(19:36) Exposing the Status Game
(35:08) Are Opinions a Way to Test Loyalty?
(40:50) How Does Arguing Relate to Opinions?
(46:44) What’s the Difference Between an Argument and a Pseudo-Argument?
(52:43) What is a Deepity?
(01:01:14) The Differences Between Vague Bulls**t and Deep Bulls**t
(01:08:18) Find Out More About David
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August 18, 2025
•130m
Jesse Michels is a YouTuber and show host, exploring subjects like UFOs, consciousness, and reality.
For nearly a century, UFOs have captured our imagination as one of humanity’s greatest mysteries. Are they secret technology, alien visitors, or something else entirely? Who is behind them, what has been concealed, and what has been revealed about them? After decades of unanswered questions, are we any closer to uncovering the truth about these unknown objects in the sky?
Expect to learn why learning about UFOs is maladaptive to some people, how we know if UFOs are real or just a psy-op, if there are underground hidden bases with aliens scattered across the US, the connection with UFO sightings and nuclear sites, if UFOs might be just man made crafts or if there are other unknown technologies at play, if there is any evidence for antigravity currently and where it might come from, and much more...
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(0:00) Why is an Interest in UFOs Maladaptive?
(1:36) What Does a Modern UFO Investigator Look Like?
(12:03) Why is There So Little Evidence of UFOs?
(20:24) How Do We Know UFOs Aren’t a PSYOP?
(27:47) Are UFOs a Global Phenomenon?
(29:28) The Threat of Nuclear Sites
(35:57) Why are Non-Human Intelligences on Earth?
(38:56) Nuclear Site Interference by UFOs
(46:56) Are the Department of Energy Involved?
(55:58) How Far Can Civilians Go With UFO Research?
(01:00:19) What Physics are Behind UFOs?
(01:10:36) Where are We Currently in Physics?
(01:16:25) Why Was Townsend Brown’s Experiment Never Replicated?
(01:23:01) Why are Renegade Scientists So Highly Criticised?
(01:37:02) Where Elon Musk is Going Wrong with Space Exploration
(01:43:15) Are We Heading Towards an AI Takeover?
(01:48:40) Assessing the Probabilities of Non-Human Intelligence
(01:53:23) Consciousness in Quantum Physics
(02:09:37) Find Out More About Jesse
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