It seems like an opportunity (perhaps a last chance, given short AGI timelines and impending human level program synthesis techniques) for smart people from disadvantaged backgrounds to find CS jobs that are very well compensated relative to the global average.
A surprising number of posts in the meme curriculum threads seem to come from non-native english speakers. I’m not aware of the demographics of that community, but many
users seem like they wouldn’t have access to the shitty university system pre-internet.
What happens if we apply this model to the curriculum?
I wouldn't bring the AGI into this but maybe the UBI situation where economical classes are frozen and no more upward mobility is allowed. The curriculum is simply a good resource for learning compsci, one that is more efficient than traditional schooling - going to university, or the only resource if they cannot go at all. It's a good example of improved information flow on the internet: individuals with moderate IQ who could filter out the "Top 10 Programming Languages To Learn In 2022" google result tier advice and recognize the genius contained in a 420chan thread (lol) by an ex-convict, have increased their job prospects/wealth/status and therefore they and their Noosphere will prosper over those who could not.
Many people from 3rd world are interested in this because their university is even worse than 1st world countries, it's already bad here but the amount of cargo cult subjects and memorization olympics going on in shitholes is something else.
Where does the meme curriculum fit into this?
It seems like an opportunity (perhaps a last chance, given short AGI timelines and impending human level program synthesis techniques) for smart people from disadvantaged backgrounds to find CS jobs that are very well compensated relative to the global average.
A surprising number of posts in the meme curriculum threads seem to come from non-native english speakers. I’m not aware of the demographics of that community, but many
users seem like they wouldn’t have access to the shitty university system pre-internet.
What happens if we apply this model to the curriculum?
[context:
meme curriculum is a collection of compsci courses collected by this guy:
https://boards.420chan.org/prog/thread/39739/functionalcs-learnaifromscratch-cringe-3-0-as-old-thread-died
https://functionalcs.github.io/curriculum/ here and
https://learnaifromscratch.github.io/ here
]
I wouldn't bring the AGI into this but maybe the UBI situation where economical classes are frozen and no more upward mobility is allowed. The curriculum is simply a good resource for learning compsci, one that is more efficient than traditional schooling - going to university, or the only resource if they cannot go at all. It's a good example of improved information flow on the internet: individuals with moderate IQ who could filter out the "Top 10 Programming Languages To Learn In 2022" google result tier advice and recognize the genius contained in a 420chan thread (lol) by an ex-convict, have increased their job prospects/wealth/status and therefore they and their Noosphere will prosper over those who could not.
Many people from 3rd world are interested in this because their university is even worse than 1st world countries, it's already bad here but the amount of cargo cult subjects and memorization olympics going on in shitholes is something else.