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		poncho_romero 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Brazil bans Sam Altman's tech firm Tools for Human... Their work in education has often been a mixed bag, sometimes spending huge amounts of money to enact initiatives based on little or no empirical research that ultimately hurt the students who have the misfortune of being saved by yet another tech billionaire who believes skill in computer programming and business mean they’re an authority on everything.

atonse 7 months ago [–]

Yeah I agree, and chose my words carefully. Their education reform work in the US has been much more murky.

Their work in Africa has had unambiguously huge benefits.

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