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Because micromanaging people is how you get more Feynmans and Shannons. Bengio, Hinton, and Lecun were pariahs for decades, until all of the sudden they were rock stars. I feel so bad for the 1.3bn people living under this. If we're not careful its going to keep creeping into the West and creativity will suffer. Edit: removed profanity
Everyone's focusing on the pressure this adds but that seems largely due to cultural factors. Of course students feel more pressured if the data is primarily used to criticize them. But what about evaluating the teachers ability to keep students focused on a task? Or evaluating if a new medication is making a difference for a student with ADHD? As a side note, it seems like lazy journalism to not seek out more commen…
The headbands are produced and donated to a Chinese school by an American company! The people protested and the authorities told the school to stop using them.
FFS if it exists sell it to adults and make $$$
This conspiracy that China has all this secret technology is a bit embarassing to believe.
Everyone's focusing on the pressure this adds but that seems largely due to cultural factors. Of course students feel more pressured if the data is primarily used to criticize them. But what about evaluating the teachers ability to keep students focused on a task? Or evaluating if a new medication is making a difference for a student with ADHD? As a side note, it seems like lazy journalism to not seek out more commen…
> If the research is being done in China and the tech is bespoke to the research program in China The headbands are produced and donated to a Chinese school by an American company! The people protested and the authorities told the school to stop using them.
Like they figure out the successful ones slept in every day, had sex early, went to parties and drank from time to time.
The primarly role if these headbands since more like conditioning to me than to actually read brainwaves. You condition them as kids to respond to these headbands, then sooner or later companies will require them for workers.
Because micromanaging people is how you get more Feynmans and Shannons. Bengio, Hinton, and Lecun were pariahs for decades, until all of the sudden they were rock stars. I feel so bad for the 1.3bn people living under this. If we're not careful its going to keep creeping into the West and creativity will suffer. Edit: removed profanity
But not as much as Schmidhuber.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> If the research is being done in China and the tech is bespoke to the research program in China The headbands are produced and donated to a Chinese school by an American company! The people protested and the authorities told the school to stop using them.
The headbands were handled via a partnership with Zhejiang Brainco Technology Co Ltd. so donation is far from the right word to use. One of their partner's cofounders is also a Harvard PhD holder so it's hardly a case of the Chinese company just being there to take up space as is often claimed around here. This is a donation in the same way that lots of large American companies are Irish. And the objections from pare…
Which I guess is a subsidiary of the US-based company BrainCo located in Massachusetts. The article describes the provisioning of the headbands as a donation, which I guess makes sense if you're a startup and you want to test a pilot program in a market that might be receptive to your product.
The fact that Chinese parents protest on social media and with the authorities (on ethical grounds, it appears from the Quartz article) and the authorities banned the device on privacy concerns, sounds a lot like what would happen in the West.
As an aside, every time I read an article about the Chinese society I discover a much more nuanced picture than "it's a dictatorship with no free press and human rights". It's not a democracy for sure, but the idea it's a totalitarian state where all dissent is banned seems very far from the truth.
I wonder if there will be some sort of feedback where they discover the conditions under which kids ACTUALLY learn and thrive. Like they figure out the successful ones slept in every day, had sex early, went to parties and drank from time to time.