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The full library is now available to all users
It's great. My kids love it. You can find it inside of the "Free Explore" mode for now. Probably it will graduate to its own fully fledged "environment" as it grows and volves.
Let us know if you run into any issues or rough edges, I'm sure there are some yet to work out.
Lots of great books. Rich and beautiful language and images. Kids benefit from exposure to high level writing, it's a shame how things have been dumbed down. Time to reverse the trend!
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Sage offers many opportunities for students to personalize their experience.
They can choose to paint anything, and Sage will help them out with a pencil drawing to get them started.
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No they didn't. Their homicide rates in those countries have not decreased following their stricter gun laws.
Canada just banned the sale of handguns a few years back and our homicide rate declined more than theirs since then lol.
Yall claim America is the “best country in the world” yet other countries have implemented gun laws that have SIGNIFICANTLY reduced gun violence but did not outright ban guns. If it works in other countries, why wouldn’t it work in the “best country in the world”?
Japan, New Zealand, Canada, Switzerland, Germany. All SIGNIFICANTLY lowered gun violence without banning guns outright.
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We've been testing out this reading mode at home and it's quite compelling.
It's not like an audio book, where you can kind of tune out as it drones on. The reader turns the page, even if Sage is doing the narration (which is optional).
But what is really cool is how you can ask questions right then and there, in the flow, clarifying language that may be unfamiliar or somewhat archaic (we prefer to stock the library full of books with rich prose), or whatever it might be.
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I've seen a lot of book demos floating around X. They're all kinda lacklustre because they're made just functional enough to post about.
They avoid showing off the hard work it takes to actually make a physically realistic book that's beautiful.
The library we're building at Sage puts in that extra 10% work that's needed - like well formatted text that wraps around beautiful illustrations.
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We always want Sage to have a high degree of sensitivity to what the student does. This makes him feel smart and "alive."
Sometimes this means recognizing unconventional solutions to a problem.
In the cases in this video, I create a rectangle by combining two triangles. I do the same thing with a trapezoid, combining a square and a triangle.
Sage is able to see what I'm doing, mark it correct, and then highlight the composite shape to further draw attention to the task at hand.
The system is flexible, so the answers can also be flexible. This is the advantage of an AI teacher. Sage isn't just waiting for a predetermined shape of a correct response. He can dynamically make sense of the work.
Sage isn't an app with an agent slapped on top.
It is an agent with an app.
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I'm glad people are excited about how AI can help create robust learning experiences, but the below is still visual slop.
Here is @sage_teacher in action.
We are committed to beauty and effectiveness in pedagogy.
Watch how Sage gently corrects the student and helps them find the right answer:
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THE AI DOOM OP IS NOT ABOUT SLOWING DOWN AI
We need clarity about this AI Doom op.
Those who are conservative or on the right that have no interest in AI or even find it distasteful need to pay the most attention.
For the political class that's pushing this. This is not really about slowing the pace of AI development at all. It is about using fear of AI development to ram through their much broader and wider reaching agenda.
This is what they do. They drum up fear around something that maybe there is reasonable concern about. There was reasonable concern about covid. They used that to go nuts, as you know.
There is reasonable concern about our infrastructure and how vulnerable it is by virtue of being connected to the internet and being exposed to malicious actors who can leverage AI. That's reasonable. But that's not what this is about.
This isn't about being reasonable. This is about grabbing power. This is about ramming an agenda down our throats. The only thing you need to see to validate what I'm saying is WHO is pushing this. WHO.
It's the same group who year after year are taking every opportunity that they can to try to assert tight control over the populace. Specifically the American populace. The AI Doom cycle is just a convenient excuse.
Keep your eyes open, keep your mind sharp.
It's clever what they're doing. They know the right is split on AI. If they succeed, they don't slow AI down. They slow down YOUR access to it, but not THEIRS. They increase the asymmetry. The concentrate the power.
Anthropic et al understand this. This won't diminish their power, this will increase it. And the right is at an extreme political disadvantage because a bunch of people.on the right don't like AI. It's going to be difficult to galvanize "the base" to suddenly fight in what looks like a "pro AI" direction.
Eyes open. This is NOT about slowing down AI. It's about disarming you. This is second amendment type of stuff. They don't want you to have weapons, but they certainly aren't going to lay down THEIR arms.
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I don't think that's quite right. if a user directs a model to do harm, and it does, the user should be liable. However, if the user does NOT direct it to do harm, and it does, then the lab should be liable.
With Naval's solution everything would be unbearably nerfed
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Our 4 year old, Juliana, has been working on place value over the last few days with Sage. It's fully clicking. No intervention, except from Sage.
It's calm. There's no dopamine hacking. She feels the progress and is eager for more.
Our vision is being realized. An app worthy of my own kids. Beautiful, calm, and effective.
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One of the things I consider a major error is the tendency for conservative minded people to cede the technology space to those who would make things ugly.
There is nothing about technology that demands ugliness. Don't cede the space.
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A thread on this just-announced win for SAF against the NFA!
Read on with the understanding though that I (Kostas) do not have nearly the level of knowledge on the taxing power that I do on Second Amendment issues. But I'll do my best to hit the highlights of the ruling.
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Meditating this afternoon on the truth of assurance of salvation.
What has typically been called the "perseverance of the saints" sits solidly on God’s sovereign commitment to complete what He has begun in believers’ lives. God pledges to bring to completion the good work He started in believers at the day of Jesus Christ (Phil 1:6), establishing a foundation that transcends my weakness and circumstance.
Christ promises that those who follow Him will never perish because no one can snatch them from His hand or the Father’s hand (John 10:27–29). This dual security, held by both Christ and the Father, reveals an unbreakable grip. Nothing in creation: whether death, life, spiritual forces, present circumstances, or future events, can separate Christians from God’s love in Christ (Rom 8:38–39). The robustness of this list removes the possible threat to salvation.
God’s faithfulness grounds this doctrine. All whom the Father gives to Christ will come to Him, and Christ will lose nothing of what has been entrusted to Him (John 6:37–40). God’s gifts and calling are irrevocable (Rom 11:29), they do not hinge on changing circumstances or human performance. The Lord is faithful and will establish and guard believers against the evil one (2 Thess 3:3).
The work of the Holy Spirit provides active protection. Thank goodness I as a Christian am sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who serves as a guarantee of our inheritance (Eph 1:13–14). By God’s power, those found in Christ are guarded through faith for salvation ready to be revealed at the last time (1 Pet 1:3–5). Christ is able to save completely those who approach God through Him, since He continually intercedes for them (Heb 7:25).
This treasured Scriptural truth punctuates that those whom God foreknew and predestined are also called, justified, and glorified -- a chain of divine action that ensures completion (Rom 8:29–30). It's a progression moveing from eternity to final glorification, with no breaking point.
All who believe in Christ will have eternal life and be raised up on the last day (John 6:37–40), and believers may know with certainty that they possess eternal life (1 John 5:13). If you are a Christian rejoice in this reality, and if you are not a Christian let me tell you about the most amazing assurance you could ever experience!
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Feels like we are still in the wild west of team coordination across humans and agents.
I'm sharing some simple things we are doing at @sage_teacher that are working, easy for anyone to implement.
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Diligently working on the ability to explore living classical paintings with Sage.
It's coming soon!
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V2 of @sage_teacher is approaching the Primer. I don't know of anything nearly as close.
DM if you'd like early access. We haven't even started beta yet but have turned it on for a few families and the difference from v1 is substantial.
The Primer
@amiklas
The best education has always come from one-on-one tutoring, but that privilege has historically been reserved for very few people.
AI could give every child a patient, adaptive tutor that grows with them over the years, beginning with reading, writing, and arithmetic, and eventually helping them learn to think and reason. For the first time, Neal Stephenson’s Primer is starting to feel possible.