just waving at the far future! though Zendo does show you can make a game of doing real science. How could we make a MMORPG where guilds advance by doing that, and there's a niche for people who can help you learn without spoilers? Sounds hard.
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I tried this in January: https://bsky.app/search?q=mathacademy and it's a great improvement over high school in many ways, and I can think of more improvements -- but that's still more in the vein of training than open-ended challenge of science
I found this, and it sounds pretty compelling... But I feel the Bayesian Conspiracy should also have a prediction market... And maybe some *secret* prediction markets, or something? 🤔
A game like that'd be way cooler.
But one small idea I had for MA was, most questions are multiple choice: maybe it'd be worth making a fancier UI where you give a confidence level with your answer. I'd love it if along with the first-level training you were picking up a sense of when you're BSing.
(Because uncalibrated confidence gets penalized.)
Maybe bigger: school math curricula are basically designed for people who don't know anything. I think you'd get lots of synergy with more courses in the same system with a "simple math of everything" approach.
(The system works with a knowledge graph across courses, tracking what mastery it thinks you have and trying to choose exercises that reinforce more than one item efficiently like a generalized SRS system.)
I wonder if their engine can be used by other people to create one's own curriculum? I think it'd be *really* interesting to create a curriculum full of moral philosophy, legal history, psycho-social developmental theories, economics, psychometrics,org psychology, etc...
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But one small idea I had for MA was, most questions are multiple choice: maybe it'd be worth making a fancier UI where you give a confidence level with your answer. I'd love it if along with the first-level training you were picking up a sense of when you're BSing.
Maybe bigger: school math curricula are basically designed for people who don't know anything. I think you'd get lots of synergy with more courses in the same system with a "simple math of everything" approach.