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#2525 - Nick Bostrom

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Education Needs a Complete Rebuild

#2525 - Nick Bostrom · Jul 14, 2026 Education

School is a conveyor belt that stamps quality labels on children and delivers compliant office workers. That was useful once. If AI makes most jobs obsolete, the entire premise collapses. Bostrom argues the new curriculum should teach how to live well: conversation, friendship, hobbies, spirituality, and curiosity.

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