All articles from Erik Hoel
GPT-5's debut is slop; Will AI cause the next depression? Harvard prof warns of alien invasion; Alpha School & homeschool heroes
The Desiderata series is a regular roundup of links and thoughts for paid subscribers, and an open thread for the community.Subscribe nowContents:GPT-5's debut is slop.10% of all human experience took place since the year 2000. Education is a mirror. What's Alpha School's reflection?The rise of the
Literacy lag: We start reading too late
"The Reading Lesson," by Leon Basile Perrault (1866)What is literacy lag?Children today grow up under a tyrannical asymmetry: exposed to screens from a young age, only much later do we deign to teach them how to read. So the competition between screens vs. reading for the mind of the American child