Chrisman @chrisman

Cofounder/ceo @synthesischool, maker of superhuman AI math tutor, spinout of the SpaceX lab school. God, family, America. synthesis.com California, USA Joined May 2009

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Chrisman @chrisman

10 hours ago

Reading fluency is still the killer app for education. 10 hours to learn to read via phonics instruction. 1,000 hours practice to get fluency. Once you can read try to understand humanity’s best explanations. There are only about 100 that carry 90% of the freight. Synthesis…

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Chrisman @chrisman

10 hours ago

The AI Slop Loop: Teachers have AI create work, students have AI complete work, teachers have AI grade work. Bonus points if AI summarizes work for administrators and parents.

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Chrisman @chrisman

11 hours ago

Finally had to admit I have no argument against Aaron. If you accept that kids are people, using coercion to bend them to your will is wrong. “It’s for their own good” is not a good excuse — many tyrants say that.

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7 months ago

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Chrisman @chrisman

18 hours ago

This particular app looks familiar .

Austen Allred @Austen

2 days ago

This particular app looks familiar .

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Chrisman @chrisman

a day ago

People complain about the schools being modeled after factories, but reality is so much worse. Factories at least make things. Our system doesn’t produce factory workers, it produces bureaucrats. People who think filling out meaningless paperwork is the sole end of life.

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a day ago

11yo had a bunch of homework today. He didn’t do it, but he did calculate exactly how little homework he could do without his grades falling so low he’d be kicked off the soccer team.

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Chrisman @chrisman

a day ago

What terrifies me is if cartels were to import boatloads of fentanyl and kill a million American kids because imagine the violations of due process for peaceful drug traffickers then.

Kelsey Piper @KelseyTuoc

3 days ago

What terrifies me is if cartels were to import boatloads of fentanyl and kill a million American kids because imagine the violations of due process for peaceful drug traffickers then.

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Chrisman @chrisman

3 days ago

The worst week of the year in SF was always the one after burning man. Imagine millions of “burners” returning to the city, each dying to smugly share their unique journey of spiritual awakening through drugs and hedonism.

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Chrisman @chrisman

3 days ago

There’s an essay where a famous magician says the secret to magic is doing an inconceivable amount of work for a trick. So much work that it’s easier for audience to believe you are magic. I think this might be the key to doing anything great.

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Chrisman @chrisman

3 days ago

I tutor my own kids a lot so I can learn to build Synthesis tutor. The two biggest mistakes I make: 1. Throw too much at them at once. Almost always because I don’t realize how much knowledge is embedded in the concept I’m trying to teach. I think I’m teaching one thing, but…

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Chrisman @chrisman

4 days ago

Can I say something without everyone getting mad?

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5 days ago

I need to be able to mute certain content formats, not just words. This is the latest instantiation.

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Chrisman @chrisman

5 days ago

The 10x engineer is the one who is smart enough to build the circular solution, but clever and shameless enough to just make a really long list.

sky @skydotcs

5 days ago

The 10x engineer is the one who is smart enough to build the circular solution, but clever and shameless enough to just make a really long list.

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Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters

5 days ago

she went to the barber and said gimme that lord farquad

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Chrisman @chrisman

5 days ago

Watching a documentary about big wave surfing with the boys and marveling that this incredible footage only exists because an energy drink company needed a creative way to sell more beverages. God, I love capitalism.

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Chrisman @chrisman

6 days ago

Education is a weird field because no matter how much you do, people will say “Sure, you helped THOSE kids, but what about kids who were literally raised by wolves and never developed the capacity for language or symbols? What are you doing for THEM?”

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Chrisman @chrisman

7 days ago

Education is the last vestige of the propaganda era, where control of a handful of institutions allowed a few people to control the thoughts of millions.

Elon Musk @elonmusk

7 days ago

Education is the last vestige of the propaganda era, where control of a handful of institutions allowed a few people to control the thoughts of millions.