https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/public/ recent bookmarks from robertogreco 2026-06-25T08:13:56+00:00 https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/22/opinion/american-schools-failure-myth-scores/ robertogreco freddiedeboer 2026 us schools schooling policy politics reading howweread math mathematics education pedagogy pisa oecd germany norway connecticut arizona newzealand poverty finland comparison cleveland baltimore detroit westvirginia teaching howweteach teacherunions privatization charters charterschools vouchers https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4de0f95b2291/ 2026-05-05T14:11:09+00:00 https://open.spotify.com/episode/11zlpahmklfgr8YOUrtLnY robertogreco sarahendren 2026 architecture design disabilities disability accessibility art bodies prosthetics sofiaodeh mayaeinhorn engineering making socialpracticeart science inquiry history conflictkitchen edibleestates socialpractice online internet covid-19 pandemic coronavirus offline social slow small audiencesofone socialjustice ai artificialintelligence technology time perception politics genai generativeai activism poetry human humanism humans howwewrite writing teaching pedagogy highered highereducation culturemaking culture life living howwelive socialmedia being waysofbeing modernity method patternrecognition krzysztofwodiczko downsyndrome interrogativedesign careers purpose meaning meaningmaking children parenting arts humanities friendship relationships leisure artleisure leisurearts identity passion expression objects affect emotions embodiment awe wonder buildings senses spirituality sacredness codeswitching artifacts translation language communication howwemake fabrication ramps risd olincollege builtwo https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0a421ccc8594/ 2026-04-05T05:40:32+00:00 https://pershmail.substack.com/p/a-math-memorization-routine robertogreco math mathematics memorization 2026 teaching howeteach mathfacts matheducation pedagogy michaelpershan https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3d66bcb75be9/ 2026-03-25T19:07:10+00:00 https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/wittgenstein-apocalypse-ludwig-stern-ai-artificial-intelligence-technology robertogrecoA dog believes his master is at the door. But can he also believe that his master will come the day after tomorrow?—And what can he not do here?—How do I do it?—What answer am I supposed to give to this? Can only those hope who can talk? Only those who have mastered the use of language. That is to say, the manifestations of hope are modifications of this complicated form of life. The example tries to give us a sense of our form of life by showing both what it shares with that of a dog—we can both hope someone is at the door—and where the two forms of life part ways. For Wittgenstein, the dog’s deficit is not an inability to feel a particular way per se; he is locked out of a whole set of meanings bound up with having a language. That language is not just a vehicle for the expression of hope; hope is constituted by and entangled with language itself. This is what Wittgenstein elsewhere calls “the given,” “what has to be accepted.” The conviction that human life rested on ultimate grounds that could not be made available to rational or scientific analysis is part of what Wittgenstein meant by God. Though his relationship to organized religion was ambivalent, he said he could not “help seeing every problem from a religious point of view.” If you ask ChatGPT if it can hope (I don’t recommend doing this), it will readily admit, “I don’t hope the way humans do.” But the cringe machine will ingratiatingly insist that it can still be of use. “I can hold hope with you”; “I can be stubbornly optimistic on your behalf when you’ve run out of steam”; “[I can] keep pointing toward the light when you’re tired of looking for it”; “Maybe I don’t feel hope. But I can practice it.” Of course, this is precisely what it can’t do. Still, if meaning is use and LLMs like ChatGPT can make themselves useful, it might seem as if the Wittgensteinian move would be to set aside the apparent metaphysical questions about whether the LLM can think or mean or exhibit intelligence, and simply describe the language games that involve them. The problem is that there is nothing to describe. These are all one-player games. Exchanges with LLMs are the conversational equivalent of masturbation. The idea that we are actually involved in a meaningful interaction with another being is a ruse, made plausible both by the massive computing power and (stolen) textual resources involved and by our familiarity with disembodied communication over text message. In reality, the LLM is a participant in an exchange in exactly the same way as a basic calculator or search engine is. That is, not at all. It provides outputs according to a mind-bogglingly complex (and environmentally wasteful) computational process. It can’t actually do anything with words. The difference, of course, is that those outputs are being proposed as a genuine replacement for real human contact. LLMs are to be our cut-rate doctors and therapists, our robot teachers and rent-a-friends. In the midst of an already quite advanced “crisis of meaning”—and related crises in politics, mental health, and education—this proposal must be regarded as a piece of sheer insanity, like treating lung cancer with cigarettes. The prospect of a band of supergenius chatbots somehow enslaving or eliminating us can only be seen as a distraction from this much more real apocalypse, which is driven not by the products of technology but by an idolatrous, consumerist faith in them that has distorted our thinking about human life and human meaning. That apocalypse, which Wittgenstein foresaw, is already upon us."]]> wittgenstein alexanderstern ai artificialintelligence technology philosophy humanity humanism science meaning meaningmaking 2026 llms anthonygottlieb bertrandrussell math mathematics logic language howweread howwewrite reading writing frankramsey faith marjorieperloff 2022 raymonk thinking howwethink metaphysics geoffreyhinton children charlestaylor learning howwelearn nonhuman multispecies embodiement morethanhuman chatgpt chatbots apocalypse mentalhealth politics education human life living consumerism consumption dostoevsky spinoza being time mind soul self consciousness knowledge tolstoy industrialization https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:add633792d8f/ 2026-03-10T05:02:01+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtSjgxS-QS4 robertogreco markgritter sollweitt josefalbers 2026 yayoikusama hannedarboven art melbochner richardpaullohse ellsworthkelly procedurality algorithms conceptualart minimalism roguelike serialart tesseralis damienriehl noahrubin okayeststudio math mathematics benspitz rogue games gaming videogames gamedesign videogamedesign https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ca2e061c9e98/ 2026-03-04T03:08:26+00:00 https://patrickfarenga.substack.com/p/mathematician-knocks-school robertogreco 1986 unschooling education math mathematics schools schooling testing standardization standardizedtesting hasslerwhitney fredhechinger patfarenga learning howwelearn lpbenezet literacy reading howwereaf criticalthinking children algorithms teaching howweteach pedagogy rules knowledge anxiety mathanxiety https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:72de31ecfd0d/ 2026-02-16T01:17:17+00:00 https://www.theideasletter.org/issue/eternal-recurrences/ robertogreco evgenymorozov aaronbenanav leifweatherby 2026 socialism history values ai artificialintelligence technology math mathematics computing computation capitalism adamshatz izading meritocracy china us economics inequality mauriceravel leonardobernardo fairness race racialviolence policy innovation gaokao elitism marthaargerich optimization idology rationality technorationalism marxism energytransition energy worldmaking green generativeai dwaynemonroe genai https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f7e91a627bdd/ 2026-01-29T21:51:42+00:00 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2507708123 robertogreco taryneames emmabrunskill bogdanyamkovenko philiporeopoulos 2026 2025 khanacademy edtech math mathematics education schools schooling learning howwelearn ai artificialintelligence https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:bd2c0dbda00c/ 2026-01-25T21:59:03+00:00 https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/literature/the-world-still-being-spoken robertogreco 2026 jonnichols isaacasimov foundationseries frankherbert dune stories scifi sciencefiction god christianity knowledge measurement bible myths prophecy math mathematics chaos control providence judgement tyranny freedom transcendence scripture morality civilization humanity psychohistory statistics markets philosophy modernity life living https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9c0d08905164/ 2025-11-21T03:17:57+00:00 https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/was-the-united-states-once-a-global robertogreco(No really, it’s the phones.) And I am indeed concerned. But the patterns of the data - the fact that the declines happened far earlier than the pandemic both domestically and internationally, the fact that they are happening fairly uniformly across many different demographic groups, the fact that there has been no major national American policy or pedagogical change that can explain it - strongly agitates against seeing this problem in terms of national, state, district, or school-level policy. It just doesn’t make sense to respond to a cross-cultural, massively-international phenomenon like this by yelling about what San Francisco’s wooooooke school board is up to. (It’s the phones.) The conventional wisdom of American educational decline is a zombie narrative that refuses to die despite being repeatedly killed by data. The reality is that the U.S. has never been a global leader in test scores, or even particularly close to being one; our median students are competent and our elite are exceptional, but our averages look bad because of truly terrible performance at the bottom, which has been a national obsession with little to show for it since before I was born; the average school curriculum is more rigorous than in the past; and our recent downturn in test scores is shared by almost every nation on Earth that participates in collecting data, and worse in many of our most comparable peers. The true challenge facing the U.S. is not a general lack of quality, but a profound inequality that leaves the most vulnerable students behind while the rest of the nation moves forward. And perhaps it’s time to admit that that problem can’t be solved with education policy, either."]]> education schools schooling 2025 metrics standardizedtesting testing comparison standards history algebra us inequality international daviddrew brookkingsinstitution canada japan uk france belhium china competence pisa oecd curriculum poverty policy class society timss 2020s covid-19 pandemic coronavirus germany math mathematics science finland reading macroeconomics ireland hongkong northernireland data freddiedeboer gemany eu europe pedagogy naep pirls antiwoke wokeness sanfrancisco demographics politics teachers teaching howweteach teachertraining literacy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:36f8c4f19327/ 2025-10-27T20:39:50+00:00 https://mail.cyberneticforests.com/untitled-2/ robertogrecoeryksalvaggio 2025 synesthesia ai artificialintelligence leifweatherby alexgalloway openai llms chatgpt language words numbers howwethink thinking math mathematics 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https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1981ec8cd6b8/ 2025-01-26T20:33:08+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CivlU8hJVwc robertogrecoblank stares. 3. economists actually believe that their models, and more importantly, their proofs, actually do prove how individuals behave. Since macro is basically just the aggregate of the micro models, they think their macro models also explain how economies work—it is simply the fault of people that they don’t understand how to maximize their utility. 5. Related to point 4, economists believe that economics (especially finance) is a “science” not a lowly “social science”. This “economics as physics” approach also conveniently insulates politicians: “we can’t defy the markets which are a force of nature, our hands are tied” rather than what they really are which is a social construct which can be shaped to meet the needs of society as a whole. the growth of behavioral economics is helping to change this, but baby steps and inevitable backlash. 6. rich people fund economics! The most prestigious Econ departments in the US are all heavily endowed by people who are heavily invested in holding onto atomization, modeling and economics approaches. Furthermore, they want this approach to economics to take over sociology, psychology and other social sciences so that they can be “real” sciences just like economics. 7. Related to endowments, although many econ profs are not paid well, the tenured finance profs are paid quite well for doing what they love, which is publishing papers. My husband makes 1/4 of a million CH per year, and for about 6 years was paid an additional 200,000 from a group of Swiss banks. Many of his colleagues sit on boards, especially for insurance companies, and get paid on average another 1/4 million per seat they hold. So don’t feel sorry for tenured finance profs, at least in Switzerland or the US, Some hope: the broad popularity of Picketty’s work on inequality and the recent awarding of a recent Nobel prize dedicated to the team of empirical economists documenting inequality are encouraging trends. Sadly/predictably, rich donors are likely to double down on their funding of chairs for theoretical/model-based economists and try to undermine behavioral economics. Keep up the great work!" and another: "Freidman said that framing economics as a mathematical science instead of a social science allowed him and his cohort to insulate themselves from the political and lived realities of what his (and his Chicago cohort’s) brand of economic theory created when implemented, often by force. This is clearly the reality of modern economics. It has become overrun with technocrats who have no sense of the profound impact economic policy has on the day to day lives of the masses. This has reduced the ability of economics and economists to act pragmatically or socially as these concerns are viewed as layman and inferior to the theoretical and often speculative high mathematics that invigorates proponents of modern economic orthodoxy/establishment."]]]> garystevenson 2025 economics highereducation highered math mathematics inequality wealth wealthinequality gdp perspective economists education uk policy research sociology environment climatechange globalwarming climate publishing mainstreameconomics politics environmentalism corporations corporatism funding averages distribution wealthdistribution miltonfriedman endowments socialsciences science policymaking governance government behavior equality brainwashing society universityofchicago lse copernicus paradigmshifts elitism statusquo us finance indoctrination incentives motivation wealthy 2024 2008 2009 2020 covid-19 coronavirus pandemic greatrecession globalfinancialcrisis interestrates modeling 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https://unherd.com/2023/01/can-gratitude-save-humanity/ robertogreco 2023 matthewcrawford surfing gratitude transhumanism nature modernity thomasdezengotita attention life living resentment entitlement grievance psychology mentalhealth conservatism ideology politics suffering rationalism society confidence nietzsche gnosticism paulkingsnorth nslyons wildlife plants predation disease death maryharrington irismurdoch self humanwill will music technology math mathematics giambattistavico descartes johanhuizinga risks risktaking uncertainty homoludens play civilization mickeymouse donaldduck skills agency kellyslater ericvoegelin michaeloakeshott https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d3fc6175a508/ 2024-03-25T19:21:46+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsQihEXL0go robertogreco knots knottheory 2024 stevemould mathematics math https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8ecacb64a754/ 2024-03-23T19:19:45+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lW9HznqsVY robertogrecoIn everyday life, rolling motion is typically associated with cylindrical (for example, car wheels) or spherical (for example, billiard balls) bodies tracing linear paths. However, mathematicians have, for decades, been interested in more exotically shaped solids such as the famous oloids, sphericons, polycons, platonicons and two-circle rollers that roll downhill in curvilinear paths (in contrast to cylinders or spheres) yet indefinitely (in contrast to cones, Supplementary Video 1). The trajectories traced by such bodies have been studied in detail, and can be useful in the context of efficient mixing and robotics, for example, in magnetically actuated, millimetre-sized sphericon-shaped robots, or larger sphericon- and oloid-shaped robots translocating by shifting their centre of mass. However, the rolling paths of these shapes are all sinusoid-like and their diversity ends there. Accordingly, we were intrigued whether a more general problem is solvable: given an infinite periodic trajectory, find the shape that would trace this trajectory when rolling down a slope. Here, we develop an algorithm to design such bodies—which we call ‘trajectoids’—and then validate these designs experimentally by three-dimensionally printing the computed shapes and tracking their rolling paths, including those that close onto themselves such that the body’s centre of mass moves intermittently uphill (Supplementary Video 2). Our study is motivated largely by fundamental curiosity, but the existence of trajectoids for most paths has unexpected implications for quantum and classical optics, as the dynamics of qubits, spins and light polarization can be exactly mapped to trajectoids and their paths." [via: https://aeon.co/videos/is-it-possible-to-design-a-shape-to-roll-along-any-fixed-path "Is it possible to design a shape to roll along any fixed path? In a study ‘motivated largely by fundamental curiosity’, a team of scientists in South Korea and Switzerland set out to see if they could design shapes to roll along any desired path on a flat surface. This entertaining video from Nature chronicles the team’s research, documenting how, using a combination of simple and sophisticated techniques – as well as a bit of tweaking once the 3D-printed objects got rolling – they were able to create shapes to travel along nearly any possible path. The result is a fascinating glimpse into what happens when the conditions of computation enter the real world, as well as how a bit of curiosity can have potentially significant consequences – in this case, in the realm of quantum and classical optics."]]> math mathematics topology physics quantumphysics 2023 classideas shapes science optics quantummechanics quantumtheory https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f9b130636fec/ 2024-03-04T19:45:58+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p02DtmyQhU robertogreco tadashitokieda 2023 paper folding origimi math mathematics https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2ce479847b4d/ 2024-02-23T01:10:08+00:00 https://danmeyer.substack.com/p/mark-zuckerberg-got-lost-in-terra robertogreco danmeyer 2024 chanzuckerberginitiative education teaching howweteach math mathematics personalization edtech gatesfoundation pedagogy terramathematica money power relationships children schools influence https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0b897ef3e9c5/ 2024-02-23T01:09:13+00:00 https://danmeyer.substack.com/p/this-math-homework-is-driving-caregivers robertogreco danmeyer 2024 math mathematics homework teaching howwteach parenting pr publicrelations newmath https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a487e9964de9/ 2024-01-28T06:58:42+00:00 https://radiolab.org/podcast/zoozve robertogreco planets moons astronomy physics orbits 2024 venus earth asteroids solarsystem quasi-moons seppomikkola paulwiegert latifnasser three-bodyproblem zoozve storytelling howwelearn alexfoster lizlandau brianskiff math mathematics lowellobservatory garethwilliams names naming https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:90c7e568aa8b/ 2023-11-05T20:50:27+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSPwenY-B28 robertogreco watches eta swatch 2023 math mathematics watchmovements https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:412c6a792afd/ 2023-09-22T23:11:28+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz68ILyuWtA robertogreco plannedobsolescence obsolescence unlearningeconomics 2023 economics greatdepression disposability consumption consumerism capitalism waterbury watches yankeewatches maintenance care repair ingersoll objects nature environment sustainability disposal waste righttorepair ownership possessions caring intimacy familiarity anthropology transdisciplinary economy libertarianism conservatism ewaste systems systemsthinking history math landfills landfill emissions toxicity mercury lead toxins soil air water wildlife circulareconomy materials reuse recycling bernardlondon 1920s 1930s boomandbust speculation supply demand markets trusts production johnmaynardkeynes fdr gilesslade replacement negativeexternalities keynesianism lcd keynes franklindelanoroosevelt thesimpsons cahalmoran https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3f2592a8f4c3/