As @ESYudkowsky notes, universities mostly don’t teach you to think. That’s a disaster…
But it’s difficult: intellectual apprenticeship doesn’t scale. If you are lucky, you *can* learn to think at university—if you find the right teachers—but it’s rare.https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1083617589983510528 …
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What you learn from a great teacher is a *style* of thinking.
@vgr describes his mentor’s mode as “romantic engineering”: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2019/01/10/remembering-pierre-kabamba/ …pic.twitter.com/FhPB3wblDc
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I’ve been lucky to have had several great teachers—some now famous, others still obscure. I’m constantly tempted to write about what I learned from them, about how to think and feel and be, and how that depended on some dynamic of the relationship. Time is too short…pic.twitter.com/FnwQ8GnmpI
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It can't be the only way. That begs the question as to who taught the first thinker.
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It's just a label. You can learn from any relationship with any thinker who has even 1 good trick you don't. You're asking "who measured the first ruler"? It sounds like a tricky question, but isn't really. Just chicken-egg iteration.
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Anybody who has ever had a true mentor can appreciate that. A human relationship that is too seldom discussed.
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