If you're comfortable sharing, what's something that an adult told you when you were young that — intentions aside — had a memorably negative impact on you?
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Patrick McKenzie, Extremely Shady Youth
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Even worse, I was preternaturally good at optimizing for fulfilling teachers’ preferences, which do not include “Think deeply on whether teachers’ preferences should be a major source of fulfillment or terminal goal.”
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I got to adulthood before I realized that “Assign Patrick busywork as punishment for reading ahead” was a *classroom management technique.*
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My school had an expensive specially designed box of excruciatingly boring fake books that you were forced to read if you got through the normal ones too quickly. Ah yes here we are:https://hackeducation.com/2015/03/19/sra
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