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Trenton Bricken

Interested in Education Reform, Artificial Intelligence, Effective Altruism and more.

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My Writing Experiment

While listening to a recent podcast between Sam Harris and Lawrence Wright, Lawrence made the fascinating observation that “every major religious or ideological movement stems from a book”. Whether it is the Bible, Mein Kampf or the Communist Manifesto, text seems to be the most successful…

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The Passion Problem

This essay was written for the Benedictus Young Scholar’s Essay Prize on the topic of education reform. With this essay I was one of the three winners of the competition which provided me with the incredible opportunity to travel to Blackfriars Hall at Oxford University. There I had the chance


Language Learning is for Losers

Many students study one or more languages, but often without thinking about the opportunity cost of doing so or under…

Software engineers will be obsolete by 2060
Dan Auerbach
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This is a poor article. Technology is growing and will only keep growing.

Unlike the telegram which was a specific piece of communication – the scope of software and computing is multiples larger and take up more parts of our lives (just look at virtual reality).