I think we’re excessively surprised as to what happens if you e.g. read literally every book in the library on WWII. Intuitively, we know what is likely to happen. We discount the possibility of it happening for a 10 year old to protect our understanding of the status of adults.https://twitter.com/Halsrethink/status/1259694101865418752 …
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And while I know there is a strong undercurrent of “Lets let kids be kids! Crickey the endless competition is value destroying!”, I don’t think it is a bad thing for society if we present children the choice of “Say as you do your voyage of self discovery have you considered...”
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“... that for the effort you’re about to spend on League of Legends you could, and I’m going to just throw this possibility out there, create something that society values in the hundreds of thousands of dollar range. Just a thought; part-time job at McDonalds also an option.”
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“That sounds like a ludicrous hypothetical.” I literally know high school students who sold mid $X0k of e-books which were not obviously different in artifact character than a well-executed school project, and I think I have a really well-calibrated understanding of SaaS math.
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a thing about most (not all) extremely bright 10 year olds is that they can absorb the info but struggle to create something with it because they still have 10-year-old frustration tolerance and motor skills and executive function and such. see e.g.https://www.onlineg3.com/writing-can-wait/ …
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(though I’m just saying move your point here to more like 14 and it holds up for way more kids, larger point stands)
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