THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS
A thought experiment is a machine for making an idea personal. These are built around the keynote's central question—what is learning when AI can do the work?—and none of them can be completed by reading. You have to decide things.
You may remember me from the opening film—I moved a card once, and it rather got out of hand. In here, I keep the map and you make the calls. Nothing you choose leaves this device.
On a pedestal: one pill. Swallow it, and any one subject is completely, permanently mastered. Four decisions, a reveal, and the philosophers who have been waiting for you at every fork. This is the experiment the keynote runs live.
BeginA student's AI double attends your class, posts in his voice, and never misses a deadline. One semester, five acts, and every choice you make follows you to the final question: who was educated this semester?
BeginA new classmate has never seen color, and the class decides to tell her about red. A gentle circle-time story about the difference between knowing the facts and knowing the thing.
BeginMary knows every fact about color and has never seen it. An AI knows every fact about learning. The classic 1982 thought experiment, re-aimed at your gradebook—five acts, six verdicts.
BeginThree students turn in the same polished essay. One wrestled, one pasted, one did something harder to name. The complete, classroom-ready Socratic seminar the keynote walks through—run of show, four stances, printable handout.
Open the kitIF YOU WERE IN THE ROOM
During the keynote, we ran The Shortcut—the pill—together, with a show of hands, and walked exactly one path. This page is the promised follow-through: every decision, every consequence, and the thinkers waiting on the branches the room never took. The keynote also walks the Authorship Seminar, the complete lesson kit above, as the worked example of bringing a discussion like this to your own classroom.
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