Geniuses of the past were aristocratically tutored

"Aristocratic tutoring was not focused on measurables. Historically, it usually involved a paid adult tutor, who was an expert in the field, spending significant time with a young child or teenager, instructing them but also engaging them in discussions, often in a live-in capacity, fostering both knowledge but also engagement with intellectual subjects and fields. As the name suggests it was something reserved mostly for aristocrats, which means, no way around it, it was deeply inequitable."

"It’s a tradition that goes back as far as one can find. For example, consider one of the greatest statesmen of all time and one of the few true philosopher-kings, the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius."

"If genius were just a matter of genetic ability, then in the past century, as the world’s population increased dramatically, and as mass education skyrocketed, and as racial and gender barriers came thundering down across the globe, and particularly in the last few decades as free information saturated our society, we should have seen a genius boom—an efflorescence of the best mathematicians, the greatest scientists, the most awe-inspiring artists."

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Aristocratic tutoring blows away other teaching methods, and in addition to decent genes, is critical to creating productive genius.

As we can see, the number of productive geniuses has plummeted in recent decades, despite a boom in population, due to the falling out of style of aristocratic tutoring of prodigies.

But are human experts needed for aristocratic tutoring?

Enter AI teaching.

Essentially just chatting with a super-smart AI, both you efficiently-targetting your questions and it efficiently-targetting its answers in ways that, previously, tools simply could not do.

AIs will enable a whole new boom in aristocratic tutoring, will bring back the productive geniuses.

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