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InquilineKea
Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:49:49 +0000

Alex K Chen wrote
at 9:06am
haha, I know about the meme - it’s just a focus question I have on memes and potential/latent interests (which are essentially the types of interests that we want to utilize off of people - interests that people don’t realize until they see it)
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XX XXX (Stanford) wrote
at 9:08am
clarify
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Alex K Chen wrote
at 9:16am
“potential/latent interests”


people with “potential/latent interests” in unschooling may not realize that they have interests in unschooling (often because they don’t know about unschooling - or because they haven’t been sufficiently exposed to it). In other words, they do not realize their interests in unschooling. But yet - if we can bring out the word - so to speak - then people with potential/latent interests are also people who are receptive to the interests, which will then turn the potential/latent interests into active interests.


Basically, informational asymmetry propagated by the educational system results in many potential/latent interests that people hae
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Alex K Chen wrote
at 9:21am
so basically as they relate to the unschooling meme.
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Alex K Chen wrote
at 9:26am
and the power of the Internet - is in allowing a method to distribute memes that people have potential/latent interests in at a massive scale
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Alex K Chen wrote
at 9:27am
wow, Zivylin is friend with Bram cohen
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