In our current world, young people (<40) who especially want autonomy and dislike subordinate positions gravitate to lives surrounded exclusively by other young people, and that's probably not healthy.
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It just occurred to me that I had assumed that "more intergenerational collaborations" necessarily meant "more young people being subordinate to old people", and that feels aversive to me. But *do* those collaborations always have to be unequal? Not sure.
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That should meritocratic, and should be expected to statistically skew the other way. I don't get the fantasies about controlling or changing these kinds of arrangements.
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Why? There are a *lot* of things that I could learn from older people’s life experience, but *only* in the absence of a parent-child or teacher-disciple dynamic where they’re evaluating me. Filial piety is a useful learning tool but it’s only one path in learning-space.
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When I was in my late 20s I spent time trying to understand why some older physicists seem to get less creative, & others do not. The main signal I could see was whether or not the older physicists took care to find mentors decades younger than themselveshttps://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/992938452890013697 …
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A wonderful example of an equal collaboration was when old Francis Crick got together with young Christof Koch to begin a second career in neuroscience. Similarly, the 70-year-old Hans Bethe got together with Gerald Brown to begin his second career in astrophysics.
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it doesn't reverse the dynamic but this is an interesting lens to look at intergenerational training/mentor relationships like guild/craft apprenticeship, paideia, knight/squire etc
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in that the object is not a task (subject to the bias in your thread of the old toward the short term) but the cultivation of the younger, ideally recreating a long view if the older believes this allows their work to carry on beyond their life
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It already happens, but usually implies that the 20 year old has far superior leadership or cognitive skills to the 60 year old, or is in some kind of inherited power position. I think most 60 year olds should be able to dominate their 20 year old self effortlessly.
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The 60 year old self is "cheating" by having some memories of having been the 20 year old self.
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