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long overdue thread why i think university is useless for its only purpose, and why i dropped out of high school:

The Thiel Fellowship but it’s just buying college dropouts Claude subscriptions and teaching them Anki. Would unironically put them ahead of 99% of their peers.

An alternative to drop-out discourse is “speed-run” discourse. Every agentic kid starting from ~middle school should be trying to get out ASAP. Do your research upfront. Max out on credits. Don’t listen to the admins. Example: Get an associate’s degree while you’re in high school, then transfer. You can get your... See more

universities don't have monopoly on foundational knowledge anymore, here is how i learned all the math intuitions behind diffusion models as a high school dropout with with claude:

The next wave of startups seems to be PhD Students dropping out to build MLOps companies because they got good at training models and that turned out to be more valuable than their actual research

Unpopular opinion: building a startup in college is slowly becoming the “founded a ‘nonprofit’ in high school” for *some* wealthy students