Disappointments: when 23, reading a paper, realizing: 'this is Peak Human'. I had grown up: now differences were quantitative, not qualitative. Never again would I see leaps like object permanence, counting, reading, the future, death, logic, sarcasm, programming, statistics...
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When you're a child, you can see older people accomplishing things you can't even understand how they are doing it. You can see the valuable results but the process is a total blackbox. I don't see anything similar when I look at older people now.
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Ah, that's an interesting difference. I do. And I know that as a child many of the most important processes were things I didn't even see at the time.
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