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Should Learning Be Easy?

02-Jul-24 18:00

Should Learning Be Easy?

Should we be taking the fun way, or the hard way in our path to learning something new? Co-founder of OpenAI, Andrej Karpathy thinks the latter. He argues that the "shortification of learning" made popular by short form videos on social media, packaged as a way to learn while being entertained, is a "trap." Instead, he advocates that if one were serious about learning, they should seek out heavier academic content; think textbooks, manuals, documents and research papers. We dissect his argument, and whether there's merit to it, and also ask our listeners whether learning should be easy.

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Produced by: Alia Zefri

Presented by: Lee Chwi Lynn, Sharaad Kuttan


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Categories:  education

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