You saw music as a platform to do things. Could Live Aid happen today?
I don’t think it’s possible now. Society has changed. The web is an isolating technology. It knows what you are, it drives you, it gives you what it thinks you want, and as you get jaded it gives you more extreme versions of that.
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Alpha School isn’t really about AI. It’s about systems design — structure, autonomy, measurable feedback loops, and a currency that makes achievement feel meaningful.
All across our culture, you’ll find people eager to abandon the fundamental task of our lives, fostering and maintaining human connection, so that they can fall deeper into a pit of hedonistic distraction forever.