Loading video...

Video Failed to Load

There was a problem loading this video. This could be due to a temporary network issue or the video might be unavailable.

This teacher-turned-cognitive scientist shared a disturbing reality that left the room stunned. “Our kids are LESS cognitively capable than we were at their age.” Every previous generation outperformed its parents since we began recording in the late 1800s. So, what happened? Screens. Dr. Jared Horvath explained: “Gen Z is... the first generation in modern history to underperform us on basically every cognitive measure we have, from basic attention to memory, to literacy, to numeracy, to executive functioning, to EVEN GENERAL IQ, even though they go to more school than we did.” “So why? … The answer appears to be the tools we are using within schools to drive that learning (screens).” “If you look at the data, once countries adopt digital technology widely in schools, performance goes down significantly, to the point where kids who use computers about five hours per day in school for learning purposes will score over two-thirds of a standard deviation LESS than kids who rarely or never touch tech at school. And that’s across 80 countries.” But screens aren’t just decimating learning and making new generations less intelligent than the ones before them. They’re doing something far worse. And when you take a closer look, it isn’t pretty.show more

The Vigilant Fox 🦊

1,975,347 subscribers

207,495 views • 2 months ago •via X (Twitter)

Education News & Politics

Anya Rossi• Live Now

Private livecam show

0 Comments

No comments available

Comments from the original post will appear here

Related Videos

Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath just delivered the brutal truth parents and educators need to face: “Even in schools, it doesn’t matter what the size of the screen is… and it doesn’t matter who bought it… All of these things are going to hurt learning, which in turn are going to hurt our kids’ cognitive development.” His core warning: Gen Z is the first modern generation to be less cognitively capable than their parents — despite more years in school. Attention, memory, literacy, numeracy, executive function, even general IQ — all declining. The culprit isn’t school itself. It’s the widespread introduction of screens and digital tools for learning. Across 80 countries, once tech floods classrooms, performance drops sharply. Kids using computers ~5 hours/day for schoolwork score over 2/3 of a standard deviation lower than those who rarely touch tech. US NAEP data mirrors it: states adopt 1:1 devices → scores plateau, then fall. The biological reality: Humans evolved to learn deeply from other humans, not screens. Screens circumvent the natural mechanisms of attention, memory consolidation, and deep processing. When the tool fails to deliver, we don’t remove it — we redefine success to fit the tool (e.g., SAT reading comprehension reduced to skimming short sentences instead of deep passages). That’s not progress. That’s surrender. The cost is a generation losing cognitive sharpness at the exact moment the world needs them sharpest. Parents, teachers, policymakers: How much longer do we let screens dictate what “learning” looks like?

Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath just delivered the brutal truth parents and educators need to face: “Even in schools, it doesn’t matter what the size of the screen is… and it doesn’t matter who bought it… All of these things are going to hurt learning, which in turn are going to hurt our kids’ cognitive development.” His core warning: Gen Z is the first modern generation to be less cognitively capable than their parents — despite more years in school. Attention, memory, literacy, numeracy, executive function, even general IQ — all declining. The culprit isn’t school itself. It’s the widespread introduction of screens and digital tools for learning. Across 80 countries, once tech floods classrooms, performance drops sharply. Kids using computers ~5 hours/day for schoolwork score over 2/3 of a standard deviation lower than those who rarely touch tech. US NAEP data mirrors it: states adopt 1:1 devices → scores plateau, then fall. The biological reality: Humans evolved to learn deeply from other humans, not screens. Screens circumvent the natural mechanisms of attention, memory consolidation, and deep processing. When the tool fails to deliver, we don’t remove it — we redefine success to fit the tool (e.g., SAT reading comprehension reduced to skimming short sentences instead of deep passages). That’s not progress. That’s surrender. The cost is a generation losing cognitive sharpness at the exact moment the world needs them sharpest. Parents, teachers, policymakers: How much longer do we let screens dictate what “learning” looks like?

Camus

179,935 views • 5 months ago

GenZs are not smarter than previous generations instead they are dumber.. Happening for the first time in centuries.. Now its getting proven scientifically even what we all felt is true about GenZs .. This Guy should be given special protection.. Why .. Watch to understand that.. How well he explains how GenZs are the first generation in mordern history to underperform us basically on every cognitive measure we have ,from basic attention,memory,literacy, numeracy ,executive functioning or even general IQ..

GenZs are not smarter than previous generations instead they are dumber.. Happening for the first time in centuries.. Now its getting proven scientifically even what we all felt is true about GenZs .. This Guy should be given special protection.. Why .. Watch to understand that.. How well he explains how GenZs are the first generation in mordern history to underperform us basically on every cognitive measure we have ,from basic attention,memory,literacy, numeracy ,executive functioning or even general IQ..

AstroCounselKK 🇮🇳

202,406 views • 3 months ago

Want to see what the public schools have done to people’s children? Middle school kids beat a man for having a MAGA hat. They tell him to off himself and everything. I’m not sure if he’s a teacher there or not, but look at what public schools are doing!!! These kids were outside protesting ICE, and not in the classroom LEARNING! They’re LEARING, NOT LEARNING!!! These kids are being taught to ACT VIOLENT towards anyone who opposes leftist ideology, even their own parents!!!! IT’S TIME TO DISMANTLE THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS ONCE AND FOR ALL!

Want to see what the public schools have done to people’s children? Middle school kids beat a man for having a MAGA hat. They tell him to off himself and everything. I’m not sure if he’s a teacher there or not, but look at what public schools are doing!!! These kids were outside protesting ICE, and not in the classroom LEARNING! They’re LEARING, NOT LEARNING!!! These kids are being taught to ACT VIOLENT towards anyone who opposes leftist ideology, even their own parents!!!! IT’S TIME TO DISMANTLE THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS ONCE AND FOR ALL!

Just Jen ℞ 🫡🇺🇸

22,495 views • 6 months ago

I want to speak directly to San Francisco’s public-school parents and our students. I know many of you are worried about the possibility of a teacher strike that could temporarily close schools—and I want you to hear this clearly from me: our kids come first. As mayor, even though I don’t oversee our school district, I’m deeply committed to making sure our kids get a world-class education—with safe public schools where kids can learn and educators are well supported. It is crucial that our schools remain open. Every day in the classroom matters. I have been in regular contact with both the school district and the teachers union, and I am urging them to keep talking so kids can keep learning. Our working parents can’t afford to stay home if schools are closed. Our special needs students can’t afford to lose access to vital services that help them succeed. Schools are the foundation that makes daily life possible and helps every family in San Francisco thrive. I am also actively working with city departments to ensure we have options for our students in the event that classrooms do close. But I want to make one thing clear—what is best for our students is for the adults to continue discussions at the table so we can keep kids in the classroom. I will continue pushing for solutions that keep our schools open and our students learning. San Francisco’s families deserve nothing less.

I want to speak directly to San Francisco’s public-school parents and our students. I know many of you are worried about the possibility of a teacher strike that could temporarily close schools—and I want you to hear this clearly from me: our kids come first. As mayor, even though I don’t oversee our school district, I’m deeply committed to making sure our kids get a world-class education—with safe public schools where kids can learn and educators are well supported. It is crucial that our schools remain open. Every day in the classroom matters. I have been in regular contact with both the school district and the teachers union, and I am urging them to keep talking so kids can keep learning. Our working parents can’t afford to stay home if schools are closed. Our special needs students can’t afford to lose access to vital services that help them succeed. Schools are the foundation that makes daily life possible and helps every family in San Francisco thrive. I am also actively working with city departments to ensure we have options for our students in the event that classrooms do close. But I want to make one thing clear—what is best for our students is for the adults to continue discussions at the table so we can keep kids in the classroom. I will continue pushing for solutions that keep our schools open and our students learning. San Francisco’s families deserve nothing less.

Daniel Lurie 丹尼爾·羅偉

34,345 views • 6 months ago

Dr. Marty Makary says kids are not to blame for being sick. He says it is our fault for doing this to them as a society. “It’s not willpower problem that our kids are sick. This is not their fault.” “Look at what we do to kids. We rattle them in the middle of the night in their sleep cycle, disrupting their circadian rhythm to put them on a school bus when it’s dark.” “They sit in a classroom with less natural light exposure than most inmates in a penitentiary.” “We load them with high glycemic indices that spike their insulin levels all day long… and then we tell them to sit still at a desk for seven hours.” “And what do we do?” “We drug our nation’s kids at scale.” “It’s wrong.” “We have to address it and be honest with the problem.” (Video from The MAHA Summit)

Dr. Marty Makary says kids are not to blame for being sick. He says it is our fault for doing this to them as a society. “It’s not willpower problem that our kids are sick. This is not their fault.” “Look at what we do to kids. We rattle them in the middle of the night in their sleep cycle, disrupting their circadian rhythm to put them on a school bus when it’s dark.” “They sit in a classroom with less natural light exposure than most inmates in a penitentiary.” “We load them with high glycemic indices that spike their insulin levels all day long… and then we tell them to sit still at a desk for seven hours.” “And what do we do?” “We drug our nation’s kids at scale.” “It’s wrong.” “We have to address it and be honest with the problem.” (Video from The MAHA Summit)

MAHA Action

41,899 views • 8 months ago

The real question is why this psychopath in Nashville was able to get into the school in the first place. We protect green pieces of paper in a bank with more armed guards than we do our kids in schools. We pay for Thousands Standing Around (TSA) in our airports. There’s more security at a random mall than in a public school. We spend $80BN+ per year through the U.S. Dept of Education that helps fund radical gender ideology to create psychopaths, yet don’t protect kids in our schools from being killed by them. That’s wrong. I’ll shut down the U.S. Dept of Education and use the savings to protect every kid in America from something like this from ever happening again. This shouldn’t be controversial.

The real question is why this psychopath in Nashville was able to get into the school in the first place. We protect green pieces of paper in a bank with more armed guards than we do our kids in schools. We pay for Thousands Standing Around (TSA) in our airports. There’s more security at a random mall than in a public school. We spend $80BN+ per year through the U.S. Dept of Education that helps fund radical gender ideology to create psychopaths, yet don’t protect kids in our schools from being killed by them. That’s wrong. I’ll shut down the U.S. Dept of Education and use the savings to protect every kid in America from something like this from ever happening again. This shouldn’t be controversial.

Vivek Ramaswamy

1,995,410 views • 3 years ago

I can tell almost instantly when I meet a young man or woman, whether he or she is a deep thinker. They may not be at the top of their class, but that doesn’t necessarily make them less intelligent than the kid who scored 1500 on his SAT or the guy with an IQ of 134. They may be more intelligent. Much more intelligent, but the methods we have for quantifying that intelligence do not adequately capture the breadth and depth of brilliant minds that exist in the world. So they go unrecognized while the kids who excel on answer-based examinations get the best grades, attend the best schools, earn the best degrees, and, more often than not, go on to have mediocre lives. Why? There is one thing that the most brilliant and accomplished people I have ever met all share in common, and it isn’t pedigree or IQ. It’s curiosity. And not just any curiosity—it’s the inexhaustible kind. It’s the kind that will never be satisfied. In my experience, this is the sort of curiosity that breeds humility and most often coincides with a questions-based mindset. And it’s this type of mindset, not the answers-based mindset our educational system selects for, that is the actual prerequisite for brilliance. I’ve seen this kind of brilliance in physical therapists, plumbers, and pretty much any profession you can imagine that we don’t typically associate with brilliance. But we do associate it with excellence. And that’s because to become excellent at something, you have to become your own teacher. This means going from learning how to give the right answers to learning how to ask the right questions. And that requires curiosity and an almost psychotic commitment to excellence. So, while the person in this video is correct that less intelligent people than he are far more successful than he has been, the more interesting and less remarked upon insight is that people like him are not as brilliant as the system tells us they are.

I can tell almost instantly when I meet a young man or woman, whether he or she is a deep thinker. They may not be at the top of their class, but that doesn’t necessarily make them less intelligent than the kid who scored 1500 on his SAT or the guy with an IQ of 134. They may be more intelligent. Much more intelligent, but the methods we have for quantifying that intelligence do not adequately capture the breadth and depth of brilliant minds that exist in the world. So they go unrecognized while the kids who excel on answer-based examinations get the best grades, attend the best schools, earn the best degrees, and, more often than not, go on to have mediocre lives. Why? There is one thing that the most brilliant and accomplished people I have ever met all share in common, and it isn’t pedigree or IQ. It’s curiosity. And not just any curiosity—it’s the inexhaustible kind. It’s the kind that will never be satisfied. In my experience, this is the sort of curiosity that breeds humility and most often coincides with a questions-based mindset. And it’s this type of mindset, not the answers-based mindset our educational system selects for, that is the actual prerequisite for brilliance. I’ve seen this kind of brilliance in physical therapists, plumbers, and pretty much any profession you can imagine that we don’t typically associate with brilliance. But we do associate it with excellence. And that’s because to become excellent at something, you have to become your own teacher. This means going from learning how to give the right answers to learning how to ask the right questions. And that requires curiosity and an almost psychotic commitment to excellence. So, while the person in this video is correct that less intelligent people than he are far more successful than he has been, the more interesting and less remarked upon insight is that people like him are not as brilliant as the system tells us they are.

Demetri Kofinas

76,349 views • 6 months ago

There is absolutely zero room for compromise when it comes to the safety of our children and school staff. 🛡️🏫 In a world where we are constantly reminded of how fragile school security can be, seeing a school resource officer stand her ground like this isn’t just "policy"—it’s a necessity. It’s about more than just an ID; it’s about a commitment to the "tiny humans" who depend on us to keep their environment a sanctuary for learning and growth. I don't care what your "audit" says or what your YouTube channel needs for views. If you can’t show identification at the door of an elementary school, you don’t belong inside. Period. We teach our kids to follow rules, to respect authority, and to be mindful of strangers. Why should it be any different for adults? Our schools aren't public parks or town halls; they are places where our future generations should feel 100% protected. Kudos to this officer for prioritizing those kids over a camera lens. We need more of this unwavering dedication in every school district. 👏 Do you agree that school safety should ALWAYS come before "public audits"?

There is absolutely zero room for compromise when it comes to the safety of our children and school staff. 🛡️🏫 In a world where we are constantly reminded of how fragile school security can be, seeing a school resource officer stand her ground like this isn’t just "policy"—it’s a necessity. It’s about more than just an ID; it’s about a commitment to the "tiny humans" who depend on us to keep their environment a sanctuary for learning and growth. I don't care what your "audit" says or what your YouTube channel needs for views. If you can’t show identification at the door of an elementary school, you don’t belong inside. Period. We teach our kids to follow rules, to respect authority, and to be mindful of strangers. Why should it be any different for adults? Our schools aren't public parks or town halls; they are places where our future generations should feel 100% protected. Kudos to this officer for prioritizing those kids over a camera lens. We need more of this unwavering dedication in every school district. 👏 Do you agree that school safety should ALWAYS come before "public audits"?

✨️Serenitee♡Sam✨️

11,809 views • 3 months ago

This teacher says if you ever wonder why people are leaving the teaching profession in droves, this is one of the main reasons. She has students that she has written an incident report on every single day. She has contacted the principal and the support staff and the help that was given to her was to email the parents of the students. Basically, no help or support at all. We have many epidemics in our country but this is one of the biggest that doesn’t get enough attention. We all know our school system is a failure but even more than we know. Students these days have zero consequences. They are passed with straight F’s. They are allowed to be a continuing distraction and disruption in the classrooms and nothing is done about it. We need to start over. 💯 Why do we allow this this as a school? As a district? As a city? As a state? As a country? It didn’t use to be like this? This is why other countries surpass us in education, there is no discipline in our schools. Would you want to be a teacher in this day and age at a public school?

This teacher says if you ever wonder why people are leaving the teaching profession in droves, this is one of the main reasons. She has students that she has written an incident report on every single day. She has contacted the principal and the support staff and the help that was given to her was to email the parents of the students. Basically, no help or support at all. We have many epidemics in our country but this is one of the biggest that doesn’t get enough attention. We all know our school system is a failure but even more than we know. Students these days have zero consequences. They are passed with straight F’s. They are allowed to be a continuing distraction and disruption in the classrooms and nothing is done about it. We need to start over. 💯 Why do we allow this this as a school? As a district? As a city? As a state? As a country? It didn’t use to be like this? This is why other countries surpass us in education, there is no discipline in our schools. Would you want to be a teacher in this day and age at a public school?

👉M-Û-R-Č-H👈

517,220 views • 2 months ago

They say Gen Z is distracted by their screens—we say we will use those very screens to give a voice to the voiceless. We are officially opening our doors to everyone who has been told to "wait their turn" by the political establishment. Whether you are part of the differently-abled community, the transgender community, or the next generation of changemakers, this party belongs to you. We aren't just offering a seat at the table; we are giving you the platform to lead. Your perspective isn't a footnote—it's the blueprint for our future. If you’d like to attend our launch on the 25th of April, DM and our team will get in touch with you.

They say Gen Z is distracted by their screens—we say we will use those very screens to give a voice to the voiceless. We are officially opening our doors to everyone who has been told to "wait their turn" by the political establishment. Whether you are part of the differently-abled community, the transgender community, or the next generation of changemakers, this party belongs to you. We aren't just offering a seat at the table; we are giving you the platform to lead. Your perspective isn't a footnote—it's the blueprint for our future. If you’d like to attend our launch on the 25th of April, DM and our team will get in touch with you.

Kavitha Kalvakuntla

26,028 views • 3 months ago

I’ve saved this clip from 2024. Maybe you’re a parent that needs to hear it now and maybe you’re a parent that needs to bookmark it for later to come back to. Either way if you have watched your child sacrifice the norms to not be of the norm and watched them fall short you can relate. For those that aren’t at this level yet- remember every match/game/point is big to them in moment and I think we minimize that thinking we are helping them when in reality we are protecting our own self from the hurt we feel when our child is hurting. Struggle and failure are life’s biggest teaching tools. They are also some of the most painful to go through, but more so to watch someone you love go through. I hope this helps some parents- now or in the future or even those parents of kids at the younger ages. Hopefully you focus on building healthy relationships with your kids over their win loss record. Hopefully you are praising them not only in their successes, but also in their failures of trying so they continue to just that- try.

I’ve saved this clip from 2024. Maybe you’re a parent that needs to hear it now and maybe you’re a parent that needs to bookmark it for later to come back to. Either way if you have watched your child sacrifice the norms to not be of the norm and watched them fall short you can relate. For those that aren’t at this level yet- remember every match/game/point is big to them in moment and I think we minimize that thinking we are helping them when in reality we are protecting our own self from the hurt we feel when our child is hurting. Struggle and failure are life’s biggest teaching tools. They are also some of the most painful to go through, but more so to watch someone you love go through. I hope this helps some parents- now or in the future or even those parents of kids at the younger ages. Hopefully you focus on building healthy relationships with your kids over their win loss record. Hopefully you are praising them not only in their successes, but also in their failures of trying so they continue to just that- try.

Allyson Schwab

49,343 views • 5 months ago

Why is there a push to close Chicago Public Schools on May 1? According to the Illinois State Board of Education, only 1 in 3 CPS elementary students are proficient in reading and only 1 in 5 are proficient in math. Our kids need more time in the classroom, not less, yet Chicago parents are being asked for their kids to lose another day of school on May 1st for a political Day of Action. Parents and kids rely on schools for learning and consistency. Closing schools will send parents scrambling for babysitters or losing wages to stay home to care for their kids. For some kids, schools are where they get their meals and are the safest place they’ll be that day. As a CPS mom, I have skin in the game and expect my son to be in school where he belongs on May 1st. Keep Chicago’s students in the classroom, parents at work, and focus on the city’s test scores, not its politics. #chicago

Why is there a push to close Chicago Public Schools on May 1? According to the Illinois State Board of Education, only 1 in 3 CPS elementary students are proficient in reading and only 1 in 5 are proficient in math. Our kids need more time in the classroom, not less, yet Chicago parents are being asked for their kids to lose another day of school on May 1st for a political Day of Action. Parents and kids rely on schools for learning and consistency. Closing schools will send parents scrambling for babysitters or losing wages to stay home to care for their kids. For some kids, schools are where they get their meals and are the safest place they’ll be that day. As a CPS mom, I have skin in the game and expect my son to be in school where he belongs on May 1st. Keep Chicago’s students in the classroom, parents at work, and focus on the city’s test scores, not its politics. #chicago

Susana A. Mendoza ☮️

39,776 views • 4 months ago

Regarding these anti-Trump protests at public schools: The kids can't read, they can't make change at the grocery store and they don't know their pronouns. And now we know why - their schools are Antifa training camps. "This is why school choice matters and this is why giving parents the ability to send their students to the school that they desire is so important. We have to make sure that students aren't forced to be in these indoctrination centers but that parents have a choice when it comes to their education. States like Kansas are continuing to move to school choice but we have to win governorships and super majorities and legislators to make sure that this happens." Wichita Vice Mayor Councilman Dalton Glasscock Josh Jones

Regarding these anti-Trump protests at public schools: The kids can't read, they can't make change at the grocery store and they don't know their pronouns. And now we know why - their schools are Antifa training camps. "This is why school choice matters and this is why giving parents the ability to send their students to the school that they desire is so important. We have to make sure that students aren't forced to be in these indoctrination centers but that parents have a choice when it comes to their education. States like Kansas are continuing to move to school choice but we have to win governorships and super majorities and legislators to make sure that this happens." Wichita Vice Mayor Councilman Dalton Glasscock Josh Jones

toddstarnes

12,939 views • 6 months ago

An old student of Tema Senior High School in the Greater Accra Region has confirmed to me that this is the situation in the school. How would students in situations like this turn out if the government pays their school fees but neglects to provide for their teaching and learning needs? The heads of schools are afraid to complain because they fear victimisation from the government. At the end of the day, the government boasts about the numbers that go through secondary school and credits that to the Free SHS policy. But would you like your son or daughter to go through this? This is a school in the Greater Accra Region. Some rural basic and secondary schools are worse than this.

An old student of Tema Senior High School in the Greater Accra Region has confirmed to me that this is the situation in the school. How would students in situations like this turn out if the government pays their school fees but neglects to provide for their teaching and learning needs? The heads of schools are afraid to complain because they fear victimisation from the government. At the end of the day, the government boasts about the numbers that go through secondary school and credits that to the Free SHS policy. But would you like your son or daughter to go through this? This is a school in the Greater Accra Region. Some rural basic and secondary schools are worse than this.

Manasseh Azure Awuni

137,955 views • 1 year ago

.Palmer Luckey says Americans are so over war, they probably couldn’t be convinced even to fight the Nazis again: “We burned all of the credibility built up during WWII — we burned most of it in Vietnam, and the rest of it in the Middle East.” “You will not convince Americans to fight another war, even if it is just.” “I don’t think the kids coming out of modern schools are ready to go die — look at the kids on the beaches in Normandy on D-Day. Do you think that we have a few million of those?” Via The Real Mike Rowe

.Palmer Luckey says Americans are so over war, they probably couldn’t be convinced even to fight the Nazis again: “We burned all of the credibility built up during WWII — we burned most of it in Vietnam, and the rest of it in the Middle East.” “You will not convince Americans to fight another war, even if it is just.” “I don’t think the kids coming out of modern schools are ready to go die — look at the kids on the beaches in Normandy on D-Day. Do you think that we have a few million of those?” Via The Real Mike Rowe

Jawwwn

1,250,102 views • 6 months ago

This teacher is one sick day away from being homeless. Her apartment is nearly empty, her refrigerator barely has anything in it at all, she has a car that works when it wants to, so where does all her money go to? The answer is she feels it’s necessary to make sacrifices so that her kids can have everything they need to be excited and engaged about learning. We always hear about how important their jobs are since they are teaching our kids and raising them in for us in many other ways. Since school funding can be tight, instead of teachers having to pay for everything to teach our kids, would it be appropriate or acceptable if at the beginning of the year the parents are charged a small materials fee for each child so teachers don’t have to spend their own money?

This teacher is one sick day away from being homeless. Her apartment is nearly empty, her refrigerator barely has anything in it at all, she has a car that works when it wants to, so where does all her money go to? The answer is she feels it’s necessary to make sacrifices so that her kids can have everything they need to be excited and engaged about learning. We always hear about how important their jobs are since they are teaching our kids and raising them in for us in many other ways. Since school funding can be tight, instead of teachers having to pay for everything to teach our kids, would it be appropriate or acceptable if at the beginning of the year the parents are charged a small materials fee for each child so teachers don’t have to spend their own money?

SonnyBoy🇺🇸

2,228,267 views • 5 months ago

#WATCH | Mumbai: Ashish Chauhan, MD & CEO of the National Stock Exchange of India, says, "...1000 years ago, we accounted for 50% of the world's GDP. When the British came to India, we were at 33% of the world's GDP. When the British left in 1947, we were at 2% of the world's GDP. Some of this was taken from us, but mostly it was because they developed new technologies. We forgot to create new technologies. We forgot to adopt new technologies. And since 1947, we have been trying to organise ourselves as a new country, as a young country. Around 1991, we started liberalisation. And now we are at around 4% of the world's GDP. Going from 2% to 4% is actually a 100% increase. But this is still very low... Countries with a young population are good at adopting new patterns. Where are those countries? If you look at Japan, it has become old. If you look at China, it has suddenly become old... India, we will remain young until 2050-2060. We have two young countries in neigbourhood, Pakistan and Bangladesh, but they are not technology adopters. They want to live the life they did 1600 years ago. Then go to Africa, they are fighting among themselves. Go to Europe, it has become old. Go to America, there will be fewer people in 2026 than in 2025...Now we are technology adopters. Every Indian is now connected to technology..."

#WATCH | Mumbai: Ashish Chauhan, MD & CEO of the National Stock Exchange of India, says, "...1000 years ago, we accounted for 50% of the world's GDP. When the British came to India, we were at 33% of the world's GDP. When the British left in 1947, we were at 2% of the world's GDP. Some of this was taken from us, but mostly it was because they developed new technologies. We forgot to create new technologies. We forgot to adopt new technologies. And since 1947, we have been trying to organise ourselves as a new country, as a young country. Around 1991, we started liberalisation. And now we are at around 4% of the world's GDP. Going from 2% to 4% is actually a 100% increase. But this is still very low... Countries with a young population are good at adopting new patterns. Where are those countries? If you look at Japan, it has become old. If you look at China, it has suddenly become old... India, we will remain young until 2050-2060. We have two young countries in neigbourhood, Pakistan and Bangladesh, but they are not technology adopters. They want to live the life they did 1600 years ago. Then go to Africa, they are fighting among themselves. Go to Europe, it has become old. Go to America, there will be fewer people in 2026 than in 2025...Now we are technology adopters. Every Indian is now connected to technology..."

ANI

82,463 views • 6 months ago

“Failure is so much more interesting than success. And it always saddens me that school doesn't teach that. At school the thing is to be brilliant and to get the answer right first time. And there are brilliant people who could do that, but for the rest of us who are not brilliant, we have to strive, and we have to go through failure. And we realize that you don't get it right the first time or the second time. In my case and I counted it. It took 5,127 times. With failure you question it “Well why did it go wrong?” And actually the reason it goes wrong is often very, very interesting. Where something works you say “Great that worked.” You don't even stop to wonder why it works. So if you've got to enjoy failure.” —James Dyson

“Failure is so much more interesting than success. And it always saddens me that school doesn't teach that. At school the thing is to be brilliant and to get the answer right first time. And there are brilliant people who could do that, but for the rest of us who are not brilliant, we have to strive, and we have to go through failure. And we realize that you don't get it right the first time or the second time. In my case and I counted it. It took 5,127 times. With failure you question it “Well why did it go wrong?” And actually the reason it goes wrong is often very, very interesting. Where something works you say “Great that worked.” You don't even stop to wonder why it works. So if you've got to enjoy failure.” —James Dyson

David Senra

55,652 views • 1 month ago

A new study of over 50,000 kids just dropped a sobering finding: Kids getting more than 4 hours of screen time a day showed significantly higher rates of anxiety, depression, and attention problems like ADHD. It’s not proving direct cause and effect, but the pattern is clear: when screens replace sleep, physical activity, and real human connection, mental health suffers. The nurse practitioner on FOX Carolina put it simply — it’s less about the exact number of hours and more about what those hours are replacing. Research consistently shows that excessive screen time disrupts melatonin production, reduces deep sleep, and limits opportunities for physical movement and face-to-face interaction — all critical for healthy brain development in children. We’re raising a generation glued to screens, and the mental health fallout is becoming impossible to ignore. Many families are now seeing the difference when kids get more outdoor time and less scrolling. What do you think — are we letting screens take too much from our kids’ development, or do you think the benefits outweigh the risks?

A new study of over 50,000 kids just dropped a sobering finding: Kids getting more than 4 hours of screen time a day showed significantly higher rates of anxiety, depression, and attention problems like ADHD. It’s not proving direct cause and effect, but the pattern is clear: when screens replace sleep, physical activity, and real human connection, mental health suffers. The nurse practitioner on FOX Carolina put it simply — it’s less about the exact number of hours and more about what those hours are replacing. Research consistently shows that excessive screen time disrupts melatonin production, reduces deep sleep, and limits opportunities for physical movement and face-to-face interaction — all critical for healthy brain development in children. We’re raising a generation glued to screens, and the mental health fallout is becoming impossible to ignore. Many families are now seeing the difference when kids get more outdoor time and less scrolling. What do you think — are we letting screens take too much from our kids’ development, or do you think the benefits outweigh the risks?

Camus

81,862 views • 2 months ago

The most interesting part for me is where Andrej Karpathy describes why LLMs aren't able to learn like humans. As you would expect, he comes up with a wonderfully evocative phrase to describe RL: “sucking supervision bits through a straw.” A single end reward gets broadcast across every token in a successful trajectory, upweighting even wrong or irrelevant turns that lead to the right answer. > “Humans don't use reinforcement learning, as I've said before. I think they do something different. Reinforcement learning is a lot worse than the average person thinks. Reinforcement learning is terrible. It just so happens that everything that we had before is much worse.” So what do humans do instead? > “The book I’m reading is a set of prompts for me to do synthetic data generation. It's by manipulating that information that you actually gain that knowledge. We have no equivalent of that with LLMs; they don't really do that.” > “I'd love to see during pretraining some kind of a stage where the model thinks through the material and tries to reconcile it with what it already knows. There's no equivalent of any of this. This is all research.” Why can’t we just add this training to LLMs today? > “There are very subtle, hard to understand reasons why it's not trivial. If I just give synthetic generation of the model thinking about a book, you look at it and you're like, 'This looks great. Why can't I train on it?' You could try, but the model will actually get much worse if you continue trying.” > “Say we have a chapter of a book and I ask an LLM to think about it. It will give you something that looks very reasonable. But if I ask it 10 times, you'll notice that all of them are the same.” > “You're not getting the richness and the diversity and the entropy from these models as you would get from humans. How do you get synthetic data generation to work despite the collapse and while maintaining the entropy? It is a research problem.” How do humans get around model collapse? > “These analogies are surprisingly good. Humans collapse during the course of their lives. Children haven't overfit yet. They will say stuff that will shock you. Because they're not yet collapsed. But we [adults] are collapsed. We end up revisiting the same thoughts, we end up saying more and more of the same stuff, the learning rates go down, the collapse continues to get worse, and then everything deteriorates.” In fact, there’s an interesting paper arguing that dreaming evolved to assist generalization, and resist overfitting to daily learning - look up The Overfitted Brain by Erik Hoel. I asked Karpathy: Isn’t it interesting that humans learn best at a part of their lives (childhood) whose actual details they completely forget, adults still learn really well but have terrible memory about the particulars of the things they read or watch, and LLMs can memorize arbitrary details about text that no human could but are currently pretty bad at generalization? > “[Fallible human memory] is a feature, not a bug, because it forces you to only learn the generalizable components. LLMs are distracted by all the memory that they have of the pre-trained documents. That's why when I talk about the cognitive core, I actually want to remove the memory. I'd love to have them have less memory so that they have to look things up and they only maintain the algorithms for thought, and the idea of an experiment, and all this cognitive glue for acting.”

The most interesting part for me is where Andrej Karpathy describes why LLMs aren't able to learn like humans. As you would expect, he comes up with a wonderfully evocative phrase to describe RL: “sucking supervision bits through a straw.” A single end reward gets broadcast across every token in a successful trajectory, upweighting even wrong or irrelevant turns that lead to the right answer. > “Humans don't use reinforcement learning, as I've said before. I think they do something different. Reinforcement learning is a lot worse than the average person thinks. Reinforcement learning is terrible. It just so happens that everything that we had before is much worse.” So what do humans do instead? > “The book I’m reading is a set of prompts for me to do synthetic data generation. It's by manipulating that information that you actually gain that knowledge. We have no equivalent of that with LLMs; they don't really do that.” > “I'd love to see during pretraining some kind of a stage where the model thinks through the material and tries to reconcile it with what it already knows. There's no equivalent of any of this. This is all research.” Why can’t we just add this training to LLMs today? > “There are very subtle, hard to understand reasons why it's not trivial. If I just give synthetic generation of the model thinking about a book, you look at it and you're like, 'This looks great. Why can't I train on it?' You could try, but the model will actually get much worse if you continue trying.” > “Say we have a chapter of a book and I ask an LLM to think about it. It will give you something that looks very reasonable. But if I ask it 10 times, you'll notice that all of them are the same.” > “You're not getting the richness and the diversity and the entropy from these models as you would get from humans. How do you get synthetic data generation to work despite the collapse and while maintaining the entropy? It is a research problem.” How do humans get around model collapse? > “These analogies are surprisingly good. Humans collapse during the course of their lives. Children haven't overfit yet. They will say stuff that will shock you. Because they're not yet collapsed. But we [adults] are collapsed. We end up revisiting the same thoughts, we end up saying more and more of the same stuff, the learning rates go down, the collapse continues to get worse, and then everything deteriorates.” In fact, there’s an interesting paper arguing that dreaming evolved to assist generalization, and resist overfitting to daily learning - look up The Overfitted Brain by Erik Hoel. I asked Karpathy: Isn’t it interesting that humans learn best at a part of their lives (childhood) whose actual details they completely forget, adults still learn really well but have terrible memory about the particulars of the things they read or watch, and LLMs can memorize arbitrary details about text that no human could but are currently pretty bad at generalization? > “[Fallible human memory] is a feature, not a bug, because it forces you to only learn the generalizable components. LLMs are distracted by all the memory that they have of the pre-trained documents. That's why when I talk about the cognitive core, I actually want to remove the memory. I'd love to have them have less memory so that they have to look things up and they only maintain the algorithms for thought, and the idea of an experiment, and all this cognitive glue for acting.”

Dwarkesh Patel

1,051,605 views • 9 months ago