> A quick search suggests that the most expensive education in the world is something like $100k.
replyI have a kid in an American university right now, and a quick search of my bank account statements confirms that there are far more expensive educations in the world.
Wow, an increasing number of US universities are going over $100k per year. That's a crazy amount. That's more than enough to hire an entire person.
replyThe marginal return on education spending decreases fairly quickly, but obviously becomes zero at the point by which there are not enough hours in the day/year/decade to cover every single topic that humans know about - no matter the talent or resources available to the student.
replySome results, sure.
replyBut that list is extremely ambitious. Write a best seller, make a popular game, come up with a truly novel theory, consistently outtrade index funds.
That's top 0.001% human stuff, I don't think you can take just any person and get there through education alone, it takes extreme talent and dedication. There's also diminishing returns when spending on education, it doesn't just improve linearly.
except you are missing the one versus many argument here. sure we could make one human much smarter, could we make endless copies with the same intelligence? no
replyFor $100 billion we could pay ivy-league level tuition for a million people. You don’t think investing that much in education would yield some good research or companies?
replyThat's not what the parent comment said though
reply> any human for which we spend $100billion - $3 trillion...would be able to reach all of those levels