AI & Technology2,031 following
Will AI make education more personalized or more standardized?
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AI & Technology · Science · Psychology
AI & Human Knowledge
What machines change about knowing, teaching and remembering.
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Product news is off-topic unless it bears on an epistemic question. We privilege studies over demos and we name our priors before reading results.
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Psychology1,420 following
Is attention the true scarce resource of our century?
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Science889 following
Is there knowledge science cannot, in principle, reach?
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Reading list
Research paper
The 2 Sigma Problem: The Search for Group Instruction as Effective as One-to-One Tutoring
Benjamin S. Bloom · 1984
Reports that tutored students outperformed conventionally taught peers by roughly two standard deviations, framing the challenge of scaling tutoring.
Book
The Shallows
Nicholas Carr · 2010
Argues that networked media reshapes reading into scanning, trading depth of comprehension for breadth of exposure.
Research paper
Attention as a Scarce Resource in Digital Environments
L. Chen, K. Tokoro · 2024
A meta-analysis of 62 studies on interruption cost, arguing attention behaves less like a stock and more like a recovering tissue.
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2 Oct 2026
12:00 SGT · 60 min
Lecture: Bloom's two sigma, forty years on
What the original study actually found, what failed to replicate, and what adaptive systems can honestly claim.
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LCLian ChenLearning scientist
RGRosalind GrantScience writer
KTKenji TokoroBehavioral researcher
MHMiriam HaasHistorian of technology
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