I don’t know shit. People don’t either.

A few days ago I met Tim Urban, the author of Waitbutwhy! Though I’ve been following him for a long time, his talk on future AI through scientific advancement inspires me to rethink the scientific mindset. I want to elaborate on the two take away from its talk (1) I don’t know shit. (2) People don’t know shit. In this post, I elaborate on these two ideas in the Taiwanese educational context in this post, showing the bottleneck and potential solutions in Taiwanese classrooms. Conventional wisdom: Conventional wisdom is a widely accepted belief by communities. It’s a general rule of thumb of how things are or how people usually do it, so those who follow the outcome won’t be terribly bad for your survival. However, it passes down knowledge and practices that no longer fit into the current up-to-date world, because it’s slow on updating. For instance, one conventional wisdom can be “Completing a university degree will help increase your earning for better surviving this society.” In gener

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