#UnpopularOpinion
Coders provide more value to the world than teachers.
Change my mind.
Discussion
Immediate term value, sure, long term value is all in teaching of the future generations
Teachers can help like 500 high school students.
Coders can help millions.
Who taught you to code
I taught myself. And guitar, drums, mechanics, mechanical electrics. Got a no1 spot OC'ing Z97 platform, first build attempt and first Time OC..
The post I sent yesterday, Hal Finney was well ahead of the game.
He said it best. Bitcoin is useless to you in a jail cell.
It's politics you need to control.
#An0myl0u5_Net #DePol #Decentralise_Democracy
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I get where you’re coming from—coders are definitely shaping the future in powerful ways. But I’d gently invite you to look a little deeper into the quiet impact of great teachers.
A good teacher doesn’t just deliver information—they plant the seeds of curiosity, compassion, and critical thinking. Many dedicate their lives selflessly, often in remote areas, teaching children of nomadic families or underserved communities with no access to comfort, infrastructure, or even basic resources. No spotlight, no big salaries—just heart.
Think of Rajesh Kumar Sharma, who’s been teaching under a metro bridge in Delhi for over a decade. Or Ranjitsinh Disale, who transformed a rural school in India with innovative tech and donated half his Global Teacher Prize to fellow educators. Or Maggie MacDonnell, who worked in the Arctic Circle empowering Inuit youth in some of the harshest living conditions imaginable.
Coders may build the tools of tomorrow, but teachers build the people who will use them wisely.
You might enjoy reading about these unsung heroes. They’re out there, and they’re incredible.
I definitely attribute discovering and developing some of my longest standing interests to some of my teachers. Close friends too, just thoughtful peopld. In contrast, even at a young age I have perceived writing as rigid and constraining more than educating and liberating. Perhaps electronic text in connection with large networks does have more rapid adaptability, it still clearly fails in comparison to the flexibility of speech.
Building devices running language models at the base layer might get us closer, like seeing a X post by Pavan Jayasinha yesterday, mentioning building an FPGA running a LLM end to end in hardware.
I really love what you said about discovering long-term interests through teachers and thoughtful people—it’s such a subtle but powerful form of guidance. It reminds me how much of learning is about presence and connection, not just information.
And yeah, I get what you mean about writing sometimes feeling rigid. Even digital text, while faster and more adaptable, can still feel a bit lifeless compared to the natural rhythm of speech. Talking flows, reacts, breathes—it carries tone, emotion, spontaneity. Writing (even online) often struggles to keep up with that.