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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 11 Jan 2019
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      Intellectual apprenticeship: probably the only way to learn to think. A personal account by @vgr https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2019/01/10/remembering-pierre-kabamba/ …pic.twitter.com/sgjcEB1fl3

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    2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 11 Jan 2019
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      David Chapman Retweeted Eliezer Yudkowsky

      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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      Eliezer YudkowskyVerified account @ESYudkowsky
      What weird alternative universe is this person tweeting from? Schools don't teach people to think. They just don't. We would all notice if they did. We'd be surrounded by thinkers everywhere. That would be a very different Earth. https://twitter.com/phildaian/status/1083376176889057282 …
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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 11 Jan 2019
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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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        1. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 11 Jan 2019
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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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        2. Venkatesh brrrRao‏ @vgr 11 Jan 2019
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          The preparedness component in the student is receptivity to intellectual aesthetics. This typically requires a sort of conditioned awareness of its importance from having suffered "wrong" (for you) aesthetics at the hands of teachers who don't have a style that harmonizes.

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        3. Venkatesh brrrRao‏ @vgr 11 Jan 2019
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          Though it was hard for me to admit for years, I did learn from guy I left for Pierre. What I learned there was style and teacher-student "fit" _matter_ at advanced levels where you're doing more than developing muscle-memory level rote skills. You can't power through on "IQ"

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